"Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street" is a question that's been on my mind since the mid 80's and I was still in pre-school. Certainly we could go to Sesame Place in Pennsylvania or visit the Children's Television Workshop. My parents and I would also see Elmo, Big Bird and the [...]
3DLT Pilots 3D Printed Products With Amazon 3DLT, a platform for 3D Printing As-a-Service, is pleased to announce that it has been selected to participate in a pilot to sell 3D printed products on Amazon.com. The products range from fashion jewelry pieces to home decor items and tech accessories. To view the collection, click here. [...]
Back in December, we brought you the story about a new app and device that makes your iPhone smell like popcorn. Not to be outdone the folks at Oscar Mayer, (yes the bologna people) have created a device that turns your iPhone into a bacon scented alarm clock. Every single person dreams of waking up [...]
Carol Jackson has been teaching seventh and eighth graders outside of Chicago for nearly 20 years. Over the last two years she's started to hear a lot about a Minecraft from her students. "We had a halloween party and a bunch of my students came dressed with boxes on their heads" she told us at [...]
We had a chance to swing by the Leap Motion booth at SXSXEdu. You may be asking, what is the company doing at an education conference? Well, as the rep expanded on in the below video, there are a ton of educational uses for the device. Firstly, there is a massive Leap Motion developer community. This community has already built a huge number of applications that focus on science, history, math, among other subjects. Further, as there is a robust SDK for the controller that supports many different languages, computer science instructors can easily work Leap into their curriculum
Nintendo is set to release the 8th installment of their wildly successful game, Mario Kart, on May 30th, 2014. In advance of the release of Mario Kart 8, Nintendo and Pennzoil will be bringing "Mario Kart Reimagined," to Palmer Convention Center.
Nearly two years ago the American Federation Of Teachers partnered with Britain's TEC Connect to start a free online community for teachers. Through ShareMyLesson teachers can share lesson plans, best practices and great ideas with each other along with the materials that go with those great ideas. The hope is that teachers from across both [...]
Well he's not 12 years old anymore nor is he the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but now 16 year old Hunter Thompson from Austin has created what many will believe is the best iPhone, iPod and iPad case lines ever. His company, SmallWorks, started with an idea at age 12 when [...]
Nolan Bushnell. the man behind the original Atari and the first interactive kids restaurant concept, Chuck E Cheese, took to the main stage at SXSWedu on Monday to talk about the project he's been working on over the last two years, Brain Rush. Bushnell is forging his two loves, video games and kids and making [...]
Samsung didn't waste anytime in Austin this year as SXSW officially kicked off with SXSWedu. The Techfaster team is on the ground in Austin for the next 15 days bringing you SXSW faster. 15 public schools from across the country, that were chosen as finalists in the Samsung Solve For Tomorrow contest squared off to [...]
