Monthly Archives: August 2003

There was a new online teacher certification progam announced earlier this week. Called “Passport to Teaching Certificate,” it’s being run by an organization called The American Board for the Certification of Teacher Excellence. The ABCTE page on the program is … Continue reading →

Now, this is either really cool or really creepy. Maybe both. The software company Reallusion has released a new software product called “FaceFilter”. It uses some fairly sophisticated visual tricks to fix photographs of people with less-than-perfect expressions. For instance, … Continue reading →

Toshiba has demonstrated a fuel-cell powered laptop to be brought to the market in 2004 (www.heraldnet.com/Stories/03/8/24/17151234.cfm). It’s expected to run five hours per methanol cartridge, while two years down the road they plan on models that will reach 40 hours … Continue reading →

The Chicago Sun-Times has an fun article on ink-jet cartridges (www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-zay03.html). Did you ever realize that at the going prices for cartridges that you’re paying around $9,000 a gallon for ink? Needless to say, some folks are hard at work … Continue reading →