Category Archives: technology
Playful world – Brush Monkey
I recently came across the KickStarter page of the project called Brush Monkey, a wireless-sensor-enabled toothbrush by Brian Krejcarek. Building a gamification experience out of brushing your teeth, as envisioned by Jesse Schell is thus becoming reality, do we want that … Continue reading
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Working with iPad & Zagg
I made the bold leap and made a half-week business trip to the Netherlands without my laptop, assisted only by iPad 2, Logitech Zagg keyboard case and a mobile phone. It is hard not to like a Zagg case. With … Continue reading
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Play and exercise in Active Learning Spaces
Our third new research project is part another large consortium project, coordinated by professor Roope Raisamo (TAUCHI). A work package on play and exercise is situated within Active Learning Spaces, a new Tekes project. (Link forthcoming.)
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Play2Work in RYM
Another new project that we have started working on even before Christmas is RYM/Future Learning Environments, where our Gamelab team is joining forces with indoors building experts and educational researchers to look into the future of playful collaboration particularly in … Continue reading
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New possibilities for print media and packaging – combining print with digital
I was a co-applicant in a new COST initiative “New possibilities for print media and packaging – combining print with digital”, coordinated by Anu Seisto/VTT, and the proposal was accepted and is now starting. I am looking forward to networking … Continue reading
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The five-year upgrade plan
Here are some retro- and introspective reflections on the occasion of PC upgrade at Christmas 2011. After three days (and one night) of installation, hacking and re-installation, I have again a personal play/workstation that is pretty pleasing to use. (My … Continue reading
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System speed upgrade
Ok, I have now submitted my order for the following PC components: Asus P8Z68-V/GEN3 Intel Z68 LGA1155 ATX motherboard Corsair Vengeance 8 GB Kit PC3-15000, 1866 MHz, 2×240 DIMM 8 GB Kit(2×4096 MB) system memory OCZ Agility 3 120 GB … Continue reading
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iPad as the only computer?
Better battery life, light-weight, connected device — sounds good, but the virtual keyboard of iPad is a major no-no to most business users, so the idea of having iPad as your main computer has not really become mainstream. But there … Continue reading
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Upgrade blues
I bought my previous workstation/gaming pc in spring 2007, which would be five years next May — an eternity in terms of how pc and gaming hardware in particular evolves. As I do not have much of a budget for … Continue reading
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iCloud backup runs out of space
I got my first “out of space” error from iCloud today. It took some googling around to get more light to the inner life of how iCloud backups work. It looks like the service is configured by default to backup … Continue reading
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