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Perry's Principles: Can an iPad replace textbooks?
If you have picked up your child's backpack recently you know how heavy it gets. From the elementary level all the way through college, students are inundated with textbook homework and term papers that require hardcover and heavy to carry sources. Lugging the books back and forth from school can be quite the challenge.
But new technology may soon make that all irrelevant. Schools across the nation are relying on iPads, Kindles, netbooks and e-readers to supplement or replace their original curricula. But do iPads make a difference in the classroom? Can they be just good as pen and paper?
Educator Steve Perry joins American Morning to talk about what he has seen in his school and where the technology trend is heading.
Smartphone application for inner peace
If you're looking for a way to relieve stress and anxiety or to get in touch with your emotions in the new year look no further than your iPhone or iPad.
Ronit Herzfeld shows off her the new iPhone and iPad application "Awareness" on American Morning. Test out the application for a limited time at WhatAreYouFeelingRightNow.com
Smartphones apps to help make you the smartest shopper
Do you have all of your last minute Christmas shopping done? If you are like the staff at American Morning the answer is probably no. But lucky for you, there are some new tools to help you out this holiday season. They come to you via your smartphone. New phone apps like RedLaser, ShopSavvy and TheFind scan barcodes and compare in-store prices to those of online outlets and other brick-and-mortar stores guaranteeing you the best possible price.
So, what’s the best one for your last-minute shopping?
Today on American Morning, Katie Linendoll, CNET, explains the differences between apps.
Why all the buzz over “Angry Birds” game?
Aptly called the craze of the year, “Angry Birds” has been downloaded over 50 million times this year. It has become such a pop-culture phenomenon, that it even made into this weekend’s “Saturday Night Life”. Nick Thompson, senior editor at The New Yorker, discusses why the game has become so popular on Monday’s American Morning.
Jet pack in to work? With TIME’s Best 50 Inventions of the Year, you can
Ever dream of trading your car in for a jet pack?
Battling bad guys with the super powers of an action figure?
Dream no longer. The inventions exist, and they’re here on the American Morning set today.
Radhika Jones, assistant managing editor of TIME Magazine, presents some of the magazine’s "Best 50 Inventions of the Year."
They include the Iron Man Suit, the Martin Jetpack, prescription 3-D glasses, the Looxcie ear camera, X-Flex Blast Protection wall covering, and the eLegs Exoskeleton that lets paralyzed people walk.
And, we talk to Carl Dietrich, the mind behind the flying car, which made TIME's list.
Test driver takes exclusive ride on freshest electric cars
Are Americans ready to embrace environmentally friendly cars that drive differently?
Two new mass-market electric cars, the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf, arrive at dealerships in the next few months.
CNNMoney.com writer Peter Valdes-Dapena got to take an exclusive test trip up the East Coast, and offers his reviews today on American Morning with John Roberts.
Watch to find out which car he thinks is peppier and how it feels to drive one at a high speed.
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