{"id":133,"date":"2009-03-30T12:49:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T18:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2010-05-08T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T17:41:03","slug":"look-out-smart-technologies-the-writing-may-be-on-the-wall-and-it-isnt-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2009\/03\/30\/look-out-smart-technologies-the-writing-may-be-on-the-wall-and-it-isnt-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"Look out SMART Technologies &#8211; the writing may be on the wall, and it isn&#8217;t yours."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>In Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIT Tech Review<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/technologyreview.com\/computing\/22358\/?a=f\" target=\"_blank\">A Better, Cheaper Multitouch Interface<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"dek\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technologyreview.com\/computing\/22358\/?a=f\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Pressure Pad\" src=\"http:\/\/technologyreview.com\/files\/25399\/figs123_x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"506\" align=\"left\"\/><\/a>A new pressure-sensitive pad could improve large and small touch screens.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve thought for some time that the <a href=\"http:\/\/smarttech.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SMART Technologies&#8217; White Board<\/a> which is marketed so vigorously to Alberta schools relies on physical technology that has become obsolete. Note the Wii mote stuff developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/johnnylee.net\/projects\/wii\/\" target=\"_blank\">Johnny Chung Lee<\/a>. That technology&#8217;s been known for a few years now.<\/p>\n<p>As if that&#8217;s not enough, <a href=\"http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Perlin<\/a> and his crew have come up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/video\/?vid=290&amp;a=f\" target=\"_self\">this<\/a>. SMART Tech isn&#8217;t even mentioned in the article.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon SMART, any chance you can try and live up to your name?<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-133'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(133);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(133);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(133);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In Today&#8217;s MIT Tech Review: A Better, Cheaper Multitouch Interface A new pressure-sensitive pad could improve large and small touch screens. I&#8217;ve thought for some time that the SMART Technologies&#8217; White Board which is marketed so vigorously to Alberta schools &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2009\/03\/30\/look-out-smart-technologies-the-writing-may-be-on-the-wall-and-it-isnt-yours\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[6,389,39,15,22],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-computer-science","tag-educational-technology","tag-hci","tag-higher-education","tag-software-industry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-29","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1365,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/10\/16\/what-do-programming-languages-and-educational-technologies-have-in-common\/","url_meta":{"origin":133,"position":0},"title":"What do programming languages and educational technologies have in common?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"October 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Quite a lot as it turns out. 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