Another device so shiny it's impossible to take a decent picture of it?

It held the bios in circa 1998 pentium 2 mainboards....

I was sort of wondering about the choice of pictures myself.

panasonic lumix g1 is being to look like a really good starter slr, especially of not wanting to lug around a huge camera body is a consideration...

canon g10 and lumix lx3 look like high quality range finder knockoffs for anyone who can't stomach the weight...

frankly I find I use the camera more when it's smaller. notwithstanding all the limitations that comes with.

AIr ionizer? all laptop power supplies ionize air... they also produce ozone and NOx which are not particulary good for you to respire.

Technology without accompanying pedagogy is not likely to be useful. I say this as someone with 13 years supporting technology deployment in a reasearch university...

Primary school educators are no more capable of implementing Curriculum and measuring performance in technology assisted learing enviroments then they are anywhere else, which is to say not very.

Taking a broken educational system (US public education) and selectively adding technology without new ideas and instrumentation is doomed to failure.

The fingerworks keyboards simply wasn't that good. yeah it was novel and having a huge mousing surface without removing your hands from the keyboard was prety cool. but lack of tactile feedback and the fack that you're typing on a hard surface lead to new and interesting kinds of wrist/finger strain. The thing shuffled around our office until I could longer get rid of it... it had some utility, but the perfoamnce was never there.

Uh... Those are the spitting imagins of casio exilim's... I smell an oemed product... And no sony "value-add" to speak of.

if the fossil is available from tiger direct, then it's already died.