April 2007

Infrared camera

April 30, 2007

What’s infrared? It’s a type of light too “low” for us to see… Some sounds are too low for us to hear because our ears only pick up a certain range of pitches (determined by the frequency of sound waves), infrared light is a color with a frequency too low for our eyes to see. [...]

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Web 2.0

April 27, 2007

Part of the reason that I started this blog. I want to see what it’s like to participate in this “global conversation” — or, more pessimistically, to be one of a million voices in the wind. This is web 2.0, and it’s causing a lot of fuss everywhere. In the education world, everyone’s a buzz [...]

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Mouth camera

April 26, 2007

Talk about an image being worth a thousand words. Today I saw a photo that was taken through someone’s mouth! He clenched a pinhole camera between his back teeth, photographic film and all. He then kept his mouth open long enough to expose the film. The picture is framed by teeth on all sides, and [...]

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