Skype in the Classroom tears down geographic walls, connects pupils the world over

Cisco's doing it in the boardroom, and soon, your children may be taking notes from kiddos situated in a different continent. Skype in the Classroom is a new online platform that aims to make it easier for teachers to find other teachers who are utilizing Skype within their classes, and already there are 3,900+ taking advantage. The goal here is to enable professors to easily reach out and find like-minded individuals who are covering complementary topics, and with a quick email, the two could be cooking up joint lesson plans a dozen time zones apart. As of now, 99 countries have teachers that are signed on, and we're guessing it's only a matter of time before a couple more join and push that into triple digits. Next step? Logging into first period from home. Or Fiji.

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The Week's Best iPad Apps [Apps]

MLB At Bat 2011</a: Baseball season is here and you need MLB at Bat 2011 if you consider yourself a baseball fan. It lets you follow a game pitch-by-pitch with a snazzy animation and if you have a MLB.tv subscription you can stream every game of the season through the app. There's also a 'Live Look' feature that'll show you key moments of the game in real-time too. Plus, for the iPad you get snazzy graphics from MLB 11: The Show—so 'real' stadiums and players. And! There'll be free steams for an entire month! $15

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Gadget Lab Notes: Surgery Robot Folds Miniscule Paper Airplane

The da Vinci Surgical Robot Makes Paper Planes the Size of a Penny The da Vinci surgical robot is normally used to perform precise, delicate incisions in the operating room. Dr. James Porter decided it?d be perfect for some other applications as well, namely, making ridiculously tiny paper airplanes. I?m talking paper airplanes smaller than a [...]

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Caption Contest: Russian prez is impressed by iPad 2

In non-Soviet Russia... presidents tend to receive some pretty swanky high-tech gifts. Dmitry Medvedev, leader of the good people of Russia and one of the few men to successfully rock denims with a suit jacket, has been bestowed with a fresh new iPad 2 and his facial expression seems to suggest he was immediately irradiated with blasts of magic, fairy dust, and the smiles of innocent children from across the world. We just hope he hasn't seen the crummy camera yet, he is something of a tablet photography connoisseur.

Darren: "Why, lookie there! I can see Alaska from my iPad 2!"
Joe: "I can't believe I'm playing chess with Gary Kasparov!"
Jose: "I wonder if Barack also likes to play Risk on his iPad."
Josh F.: "See? The cat is talking but he's saying 'has' instead of 'have!'"
Don: "Kickin' in the front seat, sittin' in the back seat, gotta make my mind up, which seat can I take?"
Tim: "Look, it already has Words with Comrades installed!"
Vlad: "And this has push notifications for when Mr. Putin has instructions for me, yes?"
Richard Lawler: "10,000 apps and it's still cheaper than buying the New Jersey Nets."
Myriam: "And so if I tap here, it opens the door to the shark tank... and over here are the laser controls. Cool, eh?"

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Devs Grapple for WWDC Tix as Prices Skyrocket

Tickets to Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, to be held in San Francisco in June, are hot. Some would-be attendees seem to be willing to pay thousands to get in on the event -- a quick search on eBay showed tickets being offered at prices ranging from $1,600 to $4,500 each. Many of them had multiple bids. What would be worth $4,500 to an app developer?

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DropSpace adds real Dropbox sync to Android

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Dropbox offers a lovely client for Android, but it's lacking true "sync" functionality. You can merely browse your Dropbox, pull files into the device, and manually upload specific files.

DropSpace is a little Android app that makes Dropbox on Android work like Dropbox - that is, you get real folder synchronization in the background.

When you run the app you're prompted for your Dropbox credentials. After logging in to Dropbox, you get to select which device folders you'd like to sync to the cloud. It's a straightforward mapping process: You select a folder on the device, and then specify where in Dropbox it should go.

The interface is rather clunky, at least for now. The biggest annoyance is that you can't edit your "sync list": if you add a folder and then wish to remove it, you must delete the entire list of folders and start over.

In terms of functionality, it works quite well. I tested it with the camera folder, and it was nice to be able to take my photos using the lean default Camera app and have them sync up to the cloud instantly.

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Cloud Girlfriend will use a swarm of females to satisfy men

The social network Cloud Girlfriend
Cloud Girlfriend, despite what it sounds like, doesn't really have anything to do with cloud computing. Rather, it uses a cloud of women to pose as your girlfriend on Facebook, or your favorite social network of choice. The service is scheduled to launch 'soon,' and there's no indication of how much it will cost.

With the tagline 'The easiest way to get a girlfriend is to already have one,' Cloud Girlfriend promises to be a very interesting startup indeed. The brains of the operation, David Fuhriman, speaking to CNET, says it's all about fulfilling Maslow's hierarchy of needs. "CloudGirlfriend.com can fulfill Maslow's higher needs, even though the users know that the interaction is virtual. They will interact with a real person and see real profile images of the girl with whom they interact. This interaction can build confidence and esteem as well as provide real training experiences in navigating a friendship and a relationship."

Our concern, of course, is that it's very nearly April 1. We're also worried by the fact that Fuhriman has a name that sounds ominously like a social subculture that we've grown strangely attracted to here in the Download Squad bunker.

Finally, just stop and think about it for a second. Because your cloud girlfriend will be entirely virtual, she could be based anywhere. She could be underage -- or overage -- or she might be someone who you know in real life. She could even be a relative of yours, and you'd never know.

Let's not forget this is the Internet we're talking about, folks. Worst case scenario, she could turn out to be a hairy, male truck driver from Texas. Such as... your dad, perhaps?

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Sony offers sneak peek of new LA store - no fooling (video)


You might see a bunch of fake news on the internet tomorrow, but considering what we've seen of Sony's new LA storefront, we're fairly certain this isn't a prank. That's right, Sony's launching a newly branded retail store in the City of Angels Friday, and from the look of things, it spared no expense. The 4,200-square foot space is the first to ditch the Sony Style moniker for the simpler Sony Store, and while the aesthetics are decidedly minimal, the experience is anything but. As you might expect, the shop offers demos of a slew of devices; it's packed full of everything from VAIOs to ray modelers to 3D Handycams, and it's also rocking a fully loaded home theater setup called "The Cube." Considering the outfit's been looking to up its retail cred, we'd say the new spot has the stuff to do the job, even if that bright white modular look does seem strangely familiar. If you're in the LA area, you can check out the new digs starting tomorrow -- if not, hit up the guided video tour above.

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Google Pulls PlayStation Emulator From Android Market

By Ben Kuchera, Ars Technica Google has yanked a PlayStation Emulator from the Android Market and the developer is claiming his program is being targeted due to the upcoming release of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. After all, why would someone pay for official copies of PlayStation games when they can download and play pirated, or [...]

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