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Wi-Fi Woods

Posted by michael on from the using-pine-and-elm dept.

Mr]-[at writes "School kids in southern England have been given PDAs and pocket radios to track down and record plants and wildlife, as part of the Ambient Wood Project. The feedback has been overwhelming positive."

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  1. Gee by DrMrLordX · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd love to see something like that around here if it weren't for all the booby-trapped marijuana fields everywhere. Well, in the north end of the county anyway.

  2. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmm, sounds like they should turn the volume down then.

  3. Kids today.... by (pSyCo)CV · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why is it that kids today get every little tech toy that us kids of yesturday have been drooling over for years? I'm 18, and yeah.. i just bought my 1st car. But those damned PDA's are prolly more expensive then my freakin car (which i got for cheap...) But seriously, laptops, pda's, etc, etc... they get it all.. I'm only 18, and i already can talk to the kids like they're all whipper snappers.... "Back when i was a youngen, we had 8bit 2D graphics on our games, and we watched in awe! And back when i was a youngin... we watched the naked titty women on Duke3D for hours, like you will on Duke Nukem Forever when your 74! (btw, why is duke nukem forever on freshmeat?)

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  4. Ambient Wood Project !? by dekashizl · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Ambient Wood Project" ??
    Wasn't that the subtitle of "Bukake Bud's Adventure #12"?

  5. But.... by bigmattana · · Score: 3, Funny

    What about the plants right to privacy? First they monitor all wildlife activity, next they will be monitoring all human activity. Mwwaa haaa haaa!!

    If only they could figure out how to get flouride in the plants' water supply!

  6. Re:A rude poem inspired by the headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Here is the Alaska woods Haiku interpretation:

    Quiet I Approach
    PDA Logged Bear, Suprised
    Wi-Fi Bear Stool Found

  7. Re:Give them some digital cameras and GPS too. by deathcow · · Score: 2, Funny

    LOL... all I could imagine was a teacher watching her 3rd graders remote video cams blink out one by one as aliens eat them..

  8. The object of the hunt the snark game is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    >>to enable pairs of children to collaboratively discover and reflect upon new kinds of experiences in mixed reality spaces.

    Didn't they use LSD for that in the 70s?

  9. Obl Monty Python... by chiddiscokid · · Score: 2, Funny

    8bit 2D graphics? Luxury! When I were young we had graphics cards made from gravel. Cold gravel. And we were lucky

  10. Waaaaaaah! I want to be a kid again! by Trurl's+Machine · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd love to write an essay "Deconstructing the quake. The semiotics and metaphysics of an outdoor wireless LAN multiplayer session in the woodland".

  11. Re:What about teachin them some math, physics and by aaaurgh · · Score: 2, Funny

    Going by what some of the schools I know of, since when did real knowledge and skills come out of a school! 8-)

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