TechSpectives

I have asked my fellow MATEC NetWorkians what they would like for Christmas this year. Here is the list of items:
A Sterling Engine
A floor washing robot - the Scooba
A dinosaur name Pleo
A Galileo Gravitator
A Mac Book
For some reason our IT guy is trying to get away from it all and wants a typewriter but […]

About sixty years ago (December 16, 1947) some folks at Bell Labs perfected a little device called a transistor.
There are lots of websites devoted to this invention, but I thought it was worthy of note in TechSpectives because of it’s primary role in all that this site represents. In fact, not only […]

Gordon Synder and Mike Qaissaunee will be doing a FREE NetWorks Webinar on Podacasting this Friday, December 14 at 12 EST. Now is the time to learn about Podcasting so that you may take the holiday break to set up some podcasts for your classes next year. If you want to register, just […]

Where will we be technology wise in five years? With the end of year approaching, predictions of the future always seem to come up (just look at the tabloids in the check-out line in your local grocery store). IBM has decided to make some predictions for what will happen within five years in […]

Within our high tech societies today, we have become increasingly reliant on our electronic gadgets such as; Internet ready cell phones, iPods, MP3 players, laptops, and global positioning systems (GPS). All of these electronic aides provide us services that are in most cases taken as “matters of facts” and completely trusted by the human user.
In […]