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(Liens vérifiés le 06/10/2009)


 

 


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VOCABULARY :

 

  • C this takes twice as long - an article
    "Abbreviated "text speak" may save time, but takes twice as long to read than normal language, a study shows."

    (stuff.co.nz)
  • Technology (Wikipedia)
    "Technology is a broad concept that deals with a species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt to its environment. In human society, it is a consequence of science and engineering..."
    1 Definition and usage
    2 Science, engineering and technology
    3 History
    4 Technology and society
    5 Technology and philosophy
    5.1 Technicism 5.2 Optimism 5.3 Pessimism 5.4 Appropriate technology
    6 Other species
    7 See also
    7.1 Theories and concepts in technology 7.2 Economics of technology...

 

FACTS :

A
Anti-smoking vaccine-
B

Big Brother bins -
Biometrics -
Bionic contact lens -
Brain chip reads man's thoughts
Brain2Robot -

C
CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime' - Children draw own visions of 2020
D
Dangers of world internet governance -
Driveless car
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Driverless taxi of the future
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Driving a car using your phone
E

Electronic bracelet -
Electronic tagging -
Electronic voting -
Europe delays X-ray eye -

G

Gadgets -
GPS -
Google hacking
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H

Heart Robot -
HOAP-3 robot -
How technology is changing our lives -

I

ID card (UK) -
Insects become fly-on-the-wall spies -
Invisibility cloak -
iPad -
Iphone -
Ipod-

Is tech good for kids ? -
Issue tracking system
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M

Meet Roger (The robot who will transform the way you go shopping) -
Microchip implant (human) -
Morph -

N

'Naked' scanner in airport trial -
NanoGenerators in Clothing -
Nose scanning -

P

Palm vein biometric systems -
Personal identification -
Personal space invaders
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Puffin

R

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) -
Report on dangers and opportunities posed by large search engines, particularly Google -

ROBOTS -

S
Satellite phone -
Self-driving car
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Skinput -
Slate PC -
T

Technologies on the rise in 2008 -
Technology and the internet
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The rise of technology addiction -

Things Your Kids May Never Know About
Three Laws of Robotics -
Tokyo's Gadget Heaven -
TV 3D -

W
Web children 'living in prisons'
Y
Year in pictures (2007) -

 

  • TAP YOUR SKIN TO DIAL YOUR PHONE
    "Researchers have developed a way for people to use their own skin as a keypad or pull down menu to control MP3 devices, make phone calls or play games. It's called Skinput "

    (news.discovery.com)

 



See Lesson plans

 

  • Fujitsu Automation unveils HOAP-3 robot
    "Short in stature at 60cm and weighing in at 8.8kg...
    A camera, microphone, speaker, expression LED, audio recognition function, voice synthesis function, and image recognition function have been added." 

    (ubergizmo.com)

 

  • What Apple's iPad can do
    "Apple has launched a touchscreen tablet called the iPad, which can be used to watch films, play games and browse the web."

    (BBC)

In pictures : Apple's iPad device
(BBC)

 

  • Microsoft and HP show off 'slate' PC - with a VIDEO
    "The firms unveiled the Windows 7 powered touchscreen machine, also known as a tablet, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
    The aim of the device is to bridge the gap between laptops and smartphones."
    (BBC)

  • The driverless taxi of the future at Heathrow Airport.
    "The driverless taxi, or personal rapid transit, drives itself around a network of guideways using a combination of systems including laser sensors
    and computer controls.
    The electric vehicles look a bit like the futuristic transport pods used in James Bond movies."

    (BBC)

 

  • Driving a car using your phone
    "Researchers in Germany have developed software that allows you to drive a car - with a mobile phone.
    It is part of project aimed at creating a fully automated vehicle.
    The BBC's Berlin correspondent Steve Rosenberg tried it out."

    (BBC)

 

  • Futuristic gadgets out of Japan
    - "a phone that transfers data through people's bodies,
    a music player controlled by eye movement
    and a flexible organic light-emitting diode screen (OLED)."

    (BBC)

 

 

  • 'Naked' scanner in airport trial
    "A scanner which produces "naked" images of passengers has started a trial at Manchester Airport.
    The authorities say it will speed up security checks by quickly revealing any concealed weapons or explosives."
    + VIDEO
    (BBC)

    Airport stops scans on children
    "Security staff at Manchester Airport have been banned from using new "see-through" security scanners on passengers aged under 18."

    (BBC)

 

 

 

  • Children draw own visions of 2020
    "Children asked to come up with ideas for life in 2020 have designed labour-saving devices, magic pencils to do their homework and, of course, robots."
    + PICTURES
    (BBC)

 

 

 

  • BIG BROTHER BINS

Tagging technology to track trash
"The ebb and flow of thousands of pieces of household rubbish are to be tracked using sophisticated mobile tags...
It is hoped that making people confront the final journey of their waste will make them reduce what they throw away...
In order to monitor how the pieces of rubbish move around the cities and beyond, the MIT team has developed a small mobile sensor that can be attached to individual pieces of waste. ..
Everything will be traceable. "
- with a VIDEO
(BBC)



  • Web children 'living in prisons'
    "Many children are living in a "prison-like environment" surrounded by technology, the chairman of the Independent Schools Association warns...
    Recent research suggests five to 16-year-olds are spending up to six hours a day online or watching television."
    A "survey suggested the children were spending 2.7 hours a day on average watching television, 1.5 hours on the internet and 1.3 hours on games consoles."

    (BBC)
  • "In the exhibition Design and the elastic mind in New York Nokia demonstrates the prototype of Morph,
    a mobile phone built with nanotechnology."

    Read about the "Morph Concept".
    (nokia.com)
    + VIDEO

 

  • Anti-smoking shot could curb addiction
    "Vaccine robs smokers of nicotine buzz...
    A shot that robs smokers of the nicotine buzz from cigarettes showed promise in midstage testing and may someday offer a radically new way
    to kick a dangerous habit."

    (msnbc.msn.com)

 

  • Georgia Tech Sees Promise for NanoGenerators in Clothing
    "Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Ga. are developing a ‘power shirt’ made of nanowire-affixed
    textiles to let soldiers generate power from clothing via physical motion.
    Georgia tech researchers showed how textiles fibers covered with zinc oxide nanowires can create sufficient power for small portable devices."

    (nanoscienceworks.org)

 

  • 3D TV
    ex : "The Alioscopy technology ... ideal for use in a variety of industries, including media and entertainment (film, video, casino gaming and advertising/digital signage), scientific, medical, architectural, and design visualization."
    (spike.com)

 

 

 

  • Brain chip reads man's thoughts
    "A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind...
    The brain chip reads his mind and sends the thoughts to a computer to decipher...
    He can think his TV on and off, change channels and alter the volume thanks to the technology and software linked to devices in his home."

    (BBC)

 

 

 

  • Meet Roger - The robot who will transform the way you go shopping
    (BBC)

 

 

  • The rise of technology addiction (BBC)
    "The seemingly exponential growth of portable technology has sparked fears that people are becoming addicted or swamped by gadgets and their uses."

 

  • CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'
    "Huge investment in closed-circuit TV technology has failed to cut UK crime, a senior police officer has warned...
    an "utter fiasco" - with only 3% of London's street robberies being solved using security cameras. "

    + New database
    (BBC)

 

  • Is tech good for kids? - an article - LIEN MODIFIE
    PARENTS FRET OVER WHEN A CHILD SHOULD HAVE A LAPTOP OR CELL PHONE
    (siliconvalley.com)

  • Microchip implant (human)
    "A human Microchip Implant is an integrated circuit device or RFID tag encased in silicate glass and implanted into a human's body.
    Such implants can be used for information storage, including personal identification, medical history, medications, allergies, and contact information."

    (Wikipedia)

  • Personal identification
    (Wikipedia)

  • Electronic voting
    "Electronic voting technology can include punch cards, optical scan voting systems and specialized voting kiosks (including self-contained Direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems). It can also involve transmission of ballots and votes via telephones, private computer networks, or the Internet.
    Electronic voting technology can speed the counting of ballots and can provide improved accessibility for disabled voters. However, there has been
    controversy, especially in the United States, that electronic voting, especially DRE voting, can facilitate electoral fraud..."

    (Wikipedia)

 

  • Issue tracking system
    "An issue tracking system (also called trouble ticket system or incident ticket system) is a computer software package that manages and maintains lists
    of issues, as needed by an organization...
    An issue tracking system often also contains a knowledge base containing information on each customer..."

    (Wikipedia)

  • Report on dangers and opportunities posed by large search engines, particularly Google
    (iicm.tu-graz.ac.at)

  • Google hacking
    "is a term that refers to the art of creating complex search engine queries in order to filter through large amounts of search results for information
    related to computer security..."

    (Wikipedia)

  • Dangers of World Internet Governance
    "Internet communications spill over national borders, connecting and uniting people everywhere.
    Other countries fear that cultural fragmentation and the violation of national sovereignty will result from increased interconnection."

    (techliberation.com)

  • BIOMETRICS :


     

    • Biometrics (content.answers.com)

      Lien de l'image modifié

     

    • Examples of Biometric Systems (biometrics.org)
      Face - Multimodal - Fingerprint / Palm Print Retinal -
      Hand and Finger Geometry - Vein - Handwriting - Various/Others -
      Iris - Voice/Speaker

     

 

  • Satellite phone
    "A satellite telephone, satellite phone, or satphone is a mobile phone, but unlike conventional cellular phones, which use cell sites, it uses orbiting satellites..."
    (Wikipedia)

 

  • Driverless car
    "The driverless car concept embraces an emerging family of highly automated cognitive and control technologies, ultimately aimed at a full "taxi-like"
    experience for car users, but without a human driver..."

    (Wikipedia)

  • Self-Driving Car
    "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense that's responsible for the development
    of new technology for use by the military. Their latest project is to encourage the development of vehicles that will drive themselves"

    (videos.howstuffworks.com)

  • GPS :

 

    • Global Positioning System (GPS)
      "Utilizing a constellation of at least 24 Medium Earth Orbit satellites that transmit precise microwave signals, the system enables a GPS receiver
      to determine its location, speed, direction, and time..."

      (Wikipedia)

 

  • Brain2Robot
    "A robot arm controlled by the user's thoughts could one day make life easier for people with paralysis."
    (physorg.com)

 

  • Radio-frequency identification (RFID)
    "is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders.
    An RFID tag is an object that can be applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification using radiowaves.
    Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader..."

    (Wikipedia)

 

  • Personal Space Invaders
    The top science-and-tech privacy threats of 2007.

    "It's been another big year for scientific and technological encroachments on individual privacy.
    For good or ill, governments and businesses are finding new ways to enter what used to be considered personal space.
    Here are this year's top 10 highlights."

    1. Surveillance cameras. 2. The war on smoking. 3. The war on junk food. 4. The war on salt.
    5. Pedestrian cell-phone use. 6. Naked body scanners. 7. Phone-surveillance ads. 8. Human chip implants.
    9. Mind-reading. 10. Manipulating sexual orientation.

    (slate.com)

 

  • Technologies on the rise in 2008
    "A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2007, from Facebook and the iPhone to the Nintendo Wii...
    Here the BBC News website gives its predictions for five technologies that could become big in 2008.
    1. The web to go 2. Ultra mobile PCs 3. IPTV 4. Wimax 5. Mobile VoIP"
    (BBC)

 

  • Year in pictures - The technology stories that made the headlines in 2007
    (BBC)

 

 

 

LESSON PLANS :

 

 

WEBQUESTS :

  • SAFE or TRAPPED ? - a webquest
    (about Biological Identification, Technological Devices and Surveillance)
    Niveau : 4ème - 3ème
    (Ac. Nancy-Metz)



    Après la webquest :

    Imprimer les images sur un transparent afin de faire parler les élèves,
    l'objectif étant de retrouver les connaissances acquises lors de la webquest.

     

 

INTERACTIVE GAMES :

 

 

SONGS :

  • Technologic by Daft Punk :
    "Lock it, fill it, call it, find it,
    View it, code it, jam - unlock it,
    Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
    Trash it, change it, melt - upgrade it,
    Charge it, pawn it, zoom it, press it,
    Snap it, work it, quick - erase it,
    Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
    Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it..."
    (sing365.com)
    - with the VIDEO (YouTube)

 

 

CARTOONS :

 


BODY SCANS

Orders from Homeland Security!
(cagle.com)

 


Welcome to the USA!
(theatlantic.com)


 

The computer was right...
(Site unknown)


Cool!

(bigmother.dk)

 

 

 

VIDEOS :

  • Real birds eye view! Golden Eagle in flight - Animal Camera - BBC
    "Animal lover Steve Leonard explains the secret behind the spectacular footage of birds of prey in flight used in this short video.
    Take a flight with a Golden Eagle in Scotland with the help of the ultra lightweight animal camera.
    Great short video from BBC wildlife show Animal Camera."

    (YouTube)

 

  • Ten years of changes in technology
    "Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones looks at how technology has changed during the noughties.
    The decade has seen a digital revolution that's transformed the communication and entertainment industry."

    (BBC)

 

 

  • 2057 The City Part 1 + Part 2 + Part3

    "The 2057 documentary is a 3 part series by the Discovery Channel.
    It's a an entertaining documentary about life in 50 years.
    The city episode shows us how much city life will be incredibly interconnected. The extreme interconnection has risks however
    which we must avoid before problems occur."

    (YouTube)



  • Sumsing Turbo 3000 Xi Multitask
    (koreus.com)

 

  • Robots - a slideshow
    "The Americans seem ready to wage war using robot soldiers. Is this good news?... Learn about it here.
    American speech, standard speed. EXE file to download (1.98Mb)"

    (pagesperso-orange.fr/prof.danglais)