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Visit this pavilion to learn about innovations in electronic infrastructures, including data, voice, and video networks, and supporting software and hardware. The focus is on providing all users equitable access to local,
state and global educational resources.
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Personal Location Services
Xplorer GPS Shoes
Monitor the whereabouts of your loved ones. GTX Corporation has incorporated
real-time data and robust tracking devices into a comfortable shoe. It's
3:30. . . . Do you know where your kids are?
Biofeedback Systems
Mindball
Go against the conventional competitive concept; passivity and calmness
mark the truly successful Mindball player. Mindball is not controlled
by the player's rational and strategic thoughts and decisions—on the
contrary, the participants are dependent on the body's own intuitive
reactions to the game machine. It's a whole new way to get your head
in the game.
Electronic Transactions
Electronic Records Express
Electronic Records Express (ERE) is an initiative by the Social Security
Administration that complements the Commonwealth's mandate to increase
the use of electronic records transmissions. Records can now be submitted
directly to the Social Security Administration, expediting decisions
about your students' disability claims.
Distance Learning
Digital Learning Network
This coordinated digital learning network will better leverage NASA's
unique content, facilities and personnel to provide students and educators
across the nation and around the world with a unique experience; learners
at all levels have the opportunity to interact directly with NASA scientists,
researchers and astronomers. "Reach for the stars" has a new meaning.
Biometric Authentication
Pay By Touch
Pay By Touch allows you to pay for purchases simply by placing your finger
on the sensor. The finger image securely links the user to his or her
accounts. Check out library books, sign up for afte—school tutoring,
get an extra ice cream in the lunch line—all with a swipe of a finger.
Electronic Transactions
POCKET
Obtain verifiable parental consent that is reliable, easy to use, and
cost effective: Parental Online Consent for Kids' Electronic Transactions.
POCKET is designed to enable you to protect children's personal information
during an online transaction without direct supervision. Do your parents
know?
Secure Messaging
VaporStream
It is now possible to send a message that, once read, leaves no trace
on any computer or server. Make sure you know the FOIA implications of
this technology.
Voice Privacy
Babble
Providing voice privacy without walls?, Babble protects your
spoken words from the people around you. Just add Babble to any office,
open workspace or cubicle to camouflage your voice for total confidentiality.
Optical Networks
National Lambda Rail
National Lambda Rail's national optical network system provides enormous
capacity capable of supporting the most demanding supercomputing, visualizations,
telepresence and scientific applications. A connection to NLR provides
each participating Virginia university with more network capacity than
all the universities in West Virginia, Maryland, and DC combined. Through
cooperation with Virginia universities, K-12 schools can utilize this
bandwidth for appropriate applications. NLR has more capacity than a
half-million T1 lines. |
