MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?
David Merrill demos Siftables, the smart blocks | Video on TED.com.
The OECD recently published a paper reviewing ‘healthy ageing’ policies in its member countries. Based on their definition of healthy ageing, the report identifies four policy areas that can potentially enhance improved health of the elderly.
* Improve integration of the elderly into society and the economy, including extending working life and revisiting retirement policies
* Promote better lifestyles, including increase in physical activity, more attention to nutrition and lifestyle illnesses, such as diabetes
* Adapt health systems to the needs of the elderly, including more attention to mental illness and increase in preventative care
* Attack underlying social and environmental factors that affecting healthy ageing
A group of major mobile phone handset makers aim to simplify mobile application development by working together to create a standard set of development tools on top of Eclipse, a popular open source integrated development environment (IDE).
Major handset makers to collaborate on Eclipse dev tools – Ars Technica.
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