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The Kinkajou microfilm projector and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project are socio-technological schemes designed to support students in developing countries. This article discusses the disjuncture between the aspirations of the engineers of these projects in the United States and the practical reality of transferring these learning technologies to the global South. I suggest that an understanding of technological objects as 'quasi', drawing on philosophers Bruno Latour and Michel Serres, allows an alternative conception of technology transfer as a lively, connective process that includes both human and non-human 'actants'. The New Zealand project 'One Beep', which allows the transfer of digital information via the radio network, may come closer to a 'quasi-object' by focusing on connectivity and existing media, rather than the object itself. Unlike the OLPC project or the Kinkajou projector, One Beep does not demand the abandonment of existing cultures of use or the invention of a culture of use from the outside. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a guide to innovative presentation technology. Information on Philips bSure multimedia projectors; Observation on the portable projector marketplace; Role of technology in making presentations both dynamic and interactive.

The article focuses on the use of 16mm films, produced in Great Britain, which serve the needs of the training officers. Many organizations, such as the National Coal Board, British Rail Corp., ICI and British Oxygen Corp., who make their own training films, are making them available to other users, whilst many of the several hundreds of industrial films sponsored each year have a direct or indirect training application. With their particular power to motivate and stimulate, to overcome barriers of time, space and distance and to slow down or speed up motion, to simulate direct experience and create understanding, film has immense, but as yet largely unrealised, potential. Technical innovations and developments have combined to create 16mm projectors which are flexible yet relatively simple tools. films must be properly integrated into a course, either leading up to or fitting into a training session. Considerable manipulation of the projector is required throughout a session and this increases, of course, if more than one film is used or a number of extracts are employed.

Abstract: I propose a scheme for reconstructing the weak value of an observable without the need for weak measurements. The post-selection in weak measurements is replaced by an initial projector measurement. The observable can be measured using any form of interaction, including projective measurements. The reconstruction is effected by measuring the change in the expectation value of the observable due to the projector measurement. The weak value may take nonclassical values if the projector measurement disturbs the expectation value of the observable. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Presents computer graphics products. Ideal/Context quick large-format scanner for computer-aided design; Costs of the Gateway 210 XGA and 205 SVGA mircroportable front projectors; Release of the Digital Vision Touch, a technology platform for touch-sensitive displays from Smart Technologies.

This section evaluates several projectors available in the U.S. market as of December 2001.

Introduces the PT-L785U projector from Panasonic Co. Features; Relevant applications; Specifications.

The article informs that an eight-page pamphlet entitled "A Program for the Microfilming of Newspaper Files; Earlier History and Modern Developments; Reading Equipment, Indexing and Filing of Film" is available for free distribution from the Micro-Photo Service Bureau, Cleveland 3, Ohio.

The article presents information about microfilm.