geek.teacher

ShowMe is currently free, and while I didn’t have a lot of time to play with it while it was in beta, I can assure that (a) this app is the real deal and (b) it’s absolutely going on any iPads I get for next school year. The app makes it super-easy to create tutorials/screencasts directly on your iPad. There’s tons of creation potential in this one for students of ay age.

Holy moly.

The company’s technology allows a picture’s focus to be adjusted after it is taken. While viewing a picture taken with a Lytro camera on a computer screen, you can, for example, click to bring people in the foreground into sharp relief, or switch the focus to the mountains behind them.

via Lytro’s Camera Lets You Shoot First and Focus Later – NYTimes.com.

Interesting 5 part series by Errol Morris that starts off talking about how people are very bad about knowing what they don’t know, and moves on to psychological conditions related to loss of limbs or paralysis. The part about Woodrow Wilson is downright chilling, but my favorite line is this one from part 4:

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.