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What Amazon’s Fire Phone Fail Can Teach Us About Learner Research

Maestro

Amazon’s team invested an inordinate amount of time and resources designing a 3D display for the phone, including five front-facing cameras and eye-tracking technology. They coined it Firefly, and it allowed customers to use their phone’s camera to scan barcodes on products in stores and then buy it on Amazon.

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

I also like to make occasional visits to Google Labs and Adobe Labs to "keep up" with the tech tools they are working on and to test drive any beta versions available. When I do find interesting tools I will keep track of them using my Delicious account. Tagged either under Development Tools or Cloud.