Android App Inventor Open Sourced, Code Released (Audrey Watters/Hack Education)

Audrey Watters / Hack Education:
Android App Inventor Open Sourced, Code Released  —  Last year, Google decided to shutter Google Labs, a place where a number of incredibly wonderful experimental projects lived.  Among the projects that got the ax was one of my favorites: Google’s Android App Inventor.

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Graham Bell phone instructions (to his parents) go for $92,000 – Los Angeles Times

Bell wrote a seven-page letter in 1878 attempting to explain to his parents precisely how to use his new invention. That letter sold for more than $ 92,000 in a New Hampshire auction this week. The instructions, complete with elaborate drawings …
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Amazing Dog Scooter! Unique! – ksl.com

We at Foxtrottin’ Northerns have discovered a new invention we have begun using with our dogs! You can see our website at http://northerns.org/Scooter.html to see video and pictures of this well designed scooter! You can experience what it feels like to …
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Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer backs Mirror’s We Love Reading campaign – Daily Mirror

For as long as I can remember books have been on the way out. Every new invention that came along was going to hammer the final nail into the coffin of literature. I imagine it started with moving pictures. Why would anyone read about a train when they …
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Journal celebrates 200 years of service – Boston Globe

In 1819, French physician René Laennec published a description of the cacophony of sick lungs, deciphered with his new invention: the stethoscope. Some 18 months later, doctors in New England read about his discoveries in one of the early …
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New Printing Technology Could Lead to Tire Masterpieces – Tire Review

Tire sidewalls could take on a whole new look thanks to a new invention by Bridgestone Corp. The tiremaker announced today that it has developed a “new printing technology for tires” that will help reduce overall tire weight while allowing designers to …
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