On the 24th of May I received a text message from the Leo Laporte of Irish podcasting, Bernie Goldbach, who is amongst other things, a lecture in computing and multimedia at Sligo IT. Bernie is a tireless proponent of Irish podcasting scene, so Francis McGillicuddy and I hopped along to the Clarence Hotel on his invitation, having no idea what we were meeting about, but certain it would be something interesting.
It turned out Bernie was soliciting contributions from a variety of Irish Podcasters to his address to the EdTech 2006 …

Someone needs to build a decent open source 3d brain model in shockwave, VRML or a stand alone OpenGL application (not pseudo 3d quicktime). As far as I can see, none exists. Believe me, when you’re trying to understand functional neuroanatomy, such a thing could not be more useful.
This is the sort of thing that education software does better than books or lectures, greatly accelerating the practical comprehension of complex 3d systems. Educational institutions would do well to develop such software for engineering, medicine, and physics modelling.
Start-ups, currently thinking about …