Monthly Archive for February, 2007

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How to Sync your contacts on the LG Shine

Published on 2/4/2007 in Personal-Fun-Unrelated. 11 Comments

I have to admit that I am really enjoying using the LG Shine. One thing though is still lacking: I cannot sync the Address book and the iCal appointments on my Mac. The problem is more serious when you need to call somebody and you do not have the number with you …

The unit I received was shipped without the necessary software. However, from the web site, I realized that in the commercial version a Phone Manager (only for Windows) will be included.

While I was waiting for the official launch next week, I tried a couple of things, one of which worked. So, the first thing I tried was to send each vCard individually to the phone using the Bluetooth file exchange utility. While this worked with a Symbian phone, I have got an error message trying to transfer the card to the LG unit. Probably the format is not recognized by the OS.

The thing the worked was to use a synced Symbian phone. From the phone menu is possible to send a contact in the address book via bluetooth to another unit. In this way the Shine recognize the business card and imports it correctly. The backside is that is a manual process that can be extremely tedious if you have dozens of contacts.

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Interactive Furniture at EPFL

Published on 2/2/2007 in Diary. Closed

Yesterday evening, TSR1, the Swiss National Television for the French-speaking part, has broadcasted a documentary showing some of our projects in the domain of Interactive Furniture. Two major projects were featured: the noise-sensitive table, which respond to the ambient noise with the aim of regulating the interactions of the conversation participants; and the docking lamp, a portable and intelligent beamer that can help to share laptop displays while working collaboratively.

Au centre de recherche pédagogique de l’EPFL, chaque séance se fait autour d’une table interactive qui clignote au gré de la discussion. Objectif : indiquer quand une personne s’exprime, repérer qui parle, qui ne parle pas. Et bien sûr tout est gardé en mémoire. «Plus je parle, plus le nombre de lumières devant moi s’allume, explique le professeur Pierre Dillenbourg, directeur du CRAFT. On pourra dire à quelqu’un: regarde tu parles depuis vingt minutes, ou alors: tu n’as pas encore parlé qu’en penses-tu? Le but de cette table est de favoriser la régulation dans un groupe. Apprendre en groupe est plus efficace s’il y a une répartition homogène de la participation. Si quelqu’un domine, les autres apprennent moins»



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