Orginal post by Mike

Lecturing professors nowadays face a room full of students paying full attention — to their laptops.

A lecture, by definition, is a method of teaching whereby a person talks and an audience pays attention. But a laptop is an interruption machine that fragments attention. Lectures and laptops are incompatible activities.

Some professors have addressed the fundamental incompatibility of lectures and laptops by banning the laptops. But perhaps it would be better to keep the laptops and ban the lectures. Here’s why.

Orginal post by Mike

Playboy Enterprises has inked a deal with  2K Games for the product-placement of Playboy magazines all by scenes in the game Mafia II. 

Posted via email from Mike Elgan’s Lifestream

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A company called Novothink has unveiled a new case for the iPhone called the Solar Surge. The device has a solar panel that helps charge a 1320mAH battery inside the case and the thing sells for $79.95.

The iPhone is still in second place for smartphones in the US according to the latest details from comScore. The iPhone is still far behind RIM who holds the top spot.

Jailbreaking the iPhone typically requires software and some free day. A new hardware jailbreak dongle called the iDongle has surfaced that can jailbreak any iPhone 3G or 3GS running OS 3.1.2 by just plugging it in.

Orginal post by Shane McGlaun

Released for Verizon Wireless, the Casio G’zOne Brigade is a water- and shock-resistant hardy phone with a rugged QWERTY keyboard so users can text their friends in harsh conditions. The handset can resist military standards for water, shock, dust, vibration, humidity, salt fog, solar radiation, altitude, and high and low temperature storage.

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Casio G’zOne Brigade (C741) Phone (Verizon)

Orginal post by Jason

Verizon has recently released another rugged clamshell phone from Casio namely the G’zOne Brigade C741. that specific handset meets the military’s 810F standards for dust, water and shock resistance. Apart from that, the phone additionally offers a 2.9-inch 240 x 400 internal display, a 1.2-inch 128 x 96 external display, a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera with flash, a full QWERTY keyboard, a microSD card slot, GPS, a media player, HTML browser, Push to Talk, VZ Navigator and supports CDMA EV-DO Rev. A connectivity. The G’zOne Brigade C741 is sold for $249.99 with a 2-year contract agreement.

[Verizon]

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Mobiado today introduced a new member from its endless line of luxury phones. Known as the Mobiado Classic 712GCB, the candybar handset comes equipped with a 2.2-inch QVGA display, 3G, GPS, a web browser, a music player and a 5MP camera with flash. The Mobiado Classic 712GCB is built from stainless steel, “large sapphire crystal plates” and 24K gold. The phone’s keys are additionally made out of sapphire crystal hand-painted with gold. There is no info on pricing at that instance, so stay tuned. [UnWiredView]

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