Teacher Robert Drewnowski had only $300 in grant money to help him develop a more effective way of teaching math to fourth graders. He used it to buy a Wii. More »

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In 1959, the US Army began building an immense complex underneath the frozen surface of Greenland. It would be a center of research, to the benefit of mankind! It would also be a great place to launch Cold War nukes. More »

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Dunno about you, but we’d be perfectly happy if Best Buy drops the price of the Motorola Xoom Android 3.0 tablet $100 when it’s released on Feb. 17. (Droid Attic’s leak also apparently confirms the launch date.)

The $699 unsubsidized price isn’t a huge drop from Verizon’s $800 minimum advertised price — news we broke on Friday — but it’s a start. Chances are we’ll see prices fluctuate — they always do — and we’ll be on the lookout for those "Price so low we can’t advertise them" deals. Again, you can sell for less than the MAP, you’re just not supposed to advertise it. [via Droid Attic]

Motorola Xoom $699 at Best Buy? posted originally by Android Central

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For Web developers, designers and managers, each design change involves a ton of small and large decisions. What color scheme should we go with? Should this element be larger or smaller? What will people remember once they glance at my page?

More often then not, we sort of wing this part of the job. We may ask a couple of people we know, but most small-time developers and internal product teams tend to act on gut instinct. It’s not because people don’t care, but because it’s often difficult to gather actual data. You can use Google Analytics for some things (A/B testing for conversion rates), but Analytics data won’t tell you what people remember after looking at your page, or if a certain timestamp format is more or less friendly for your comment threads.

We’ve covered a couple of applications by Zurb before, and now they’ve released a new one, aimed at providing just this sort of data to product teams. It’s called Verify, and it basically lets you create a set of tests based on your Web page, or mock-ups of possible versions of the page, and then send them out to customers or large groups of internal users.

The tests are fun: In one test, you get a few seconds to look at the page, and then you’re asked what you remember (like previously-covered Clue). Other tests produce a heat-map of clicks: People are asked something like “Where would you click to learn more about us?” and then you see what they do.

Verify isn’t free, but for what it does, it seems quite affordable (starting at $9/month). I’ve put up a short video showcasing it after the jump.

Continue reading Verify by Zurb lets you perform real-world usability testing for your website

Verify by Zurb lets you perform real-world usability testing for your website originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When Jeff Pearlman, a sportswriter, wrote a recent column, he received his typical slew of hate, slurs and rude remarks on Twitter. But this time, he didn’t want to ignore it. Instead, he sought out his “online haters” in real life. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/3aMqNiisfQU/sportswriter-tracks-down-rude-twitter-haters-in-real-life

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We’re a little short-staffed on Qualcomm chipset engineers at the moment, so forgive us if we can’t immediately confirm this tale, but we’re hearing iPhone hacker Zibri has discovered proof of the Apple / Qualcomm collaboration in his very own build of iTunes. Zibri claims that by tearing apart the latest version, he found the chunk of code above, which contains files that are allegedly the exclusive “building blocks” of Qualcomm radio firmware. That doesn’t tell us anything about a supposed iPhone 5 or iPad 2, unfortunately, as it’s probably just referring to that CDMA chipset in the Verizon iPhone 4… but with the right building blocks, one can craft any number of wonders.

Apple hacker digs up Qualcomm baseband proof by decompiling iTunes? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/22/apple-hacker-digs-up-qualcomm-baseband-proof-by-decompiling-itun/

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We’ve always taken Art Lebedev‘s product launch forecasts with a grain handful of salt, so this doesn’t come as a surprise: the firm’s sub-$1,000 OLED keyboard won’t be out anytime soon. However, the second thing the indie peripheral design house revealed today makes us giddy despite our misgivings — before the full-sized Optimus Popularis comes to market, it’s planning to release a new miniature keypad like the Optimus mini three (pictured above) but with six keys inside. Still… is it bad if all we really want is an Optimus Aux prototype?

Art Lebedev’s Optimus Popularis delayed, but new Optimus Mini Six is on the way originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Kongregate Arcade for Android is a pocket gamer’s dream come true

Kongregate Arcade for Android is a pocket gamer’s dream come true originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Could the Magic Mouse be replaced by an even more “magical” input device? It might, if a just-published Apple patent application ever results in an actual product. Described simply as a “computer input device including a display device,” the application clearly details a mouse that would have both a touch-sensitive surface and a built-in display. That, the application suggestions, could open up a whole range of new input possibilities, including using the mouse as numeric keypad, a phone, a personal digital assistant, or a graphics pad, to name just a few. What’s more, the nature of the collimated glass used for the mouse would also apparently allow it to display a magnified image of anything underneath, and the images displayed would seemingly appear to be directly on the surface on the mouse, and not appear to be under the glass (we’re not talking about a regular capacitive touchscreen on a mouse here). Of course, all of this is still just a patent application, and Apple has a long, long string of those that have yet to result in anything — still, something about this one strikes us a bit more likely than, say, a head-mounted iPhone display.

Apple patent application details magical mouse with a built-in display originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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