{"id":4600,"date":"2016-01-15T00:15:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T00:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2016-01-15T00:15:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T00:15:02","slug":"fetc-the-outside-aisle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/15\/fetc-the-outside-aisle\/","title":{"rendered":"FETC – the outside aisle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever we attend a tech conference, we have taken to identifying a winner of what we call the “outside aisle” award. The award is given to a smaller company (or at least one we have not heard of before) that has a very interesting product. The way vendor space is allocated the smaller “booths” tend to be arranged around the outside of the vendor arena.<\/p>\n

\"outsideaislefetc16\"<\/a>This year’s winner is the Ozobot<\/a> (Smart Toy Robot) – the small devices on the iPad.<\/p>\n

These are programmable robots that can receive instructions in two ways a) from colored lines (the color of the line conveys the instruction) or b) from the Blockly app<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Information about OzoBlocky<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pricing<\/a>\u00a0(also available from Amazon)<\/p>\n

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Whenever we attend a tech conference, we have taken to identifying a winner of what we call the “outside aisle” award. The award is given to a smaller company (or at least one we have not heard of before) that has a very interesting product. The way vendor space is allocated the smaller “booths” tend … Continue reading FETC – the outside aisle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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