TechXtra is a first of its kind HTML newsletter for students and educators. TechXtra offers up-to-the-minute information on new technologies, explains the underlying science, and profiles the technical experts and visionary leaders who are making it all happen. Each issue features one or more emerging technologies and presents an easy-to-read, behind-the-scenes view of how the technology or science works and the importance in its development. To bring the concepts to life and encourage young people to pursue science and technology careers, TechXtra also profiles the professionals and the visionaries who are solving real world problems, and improving our quality of life, through new uses of technology.

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TechXtra No. 8-Video Gaming and Knowing Fun When You See It

You’ve been assigned to rescue your best friends from a band of monsters strong enough to throw you across a fiery lake. You suddenly recall a secret weapon you have been saving more…

TechXtra No. 7-Electrotechnology — Today’s Magic

Try to imagine a world without electricity. A world with no lights, cell phones, cameras, microwave ovens, iPods, video games or computers. A world without air conditioners, radar, laser beams, more…

TechXtra No. 6-Digital Music: iPods, Movable Music & Tunes In Your Pocket

The next time you download your favorite tune from the Internet, rock out on music while riding home on the bus or just listen to a cool iPod “podcast,” take a moment more…

TechXtra No. 5-Artificial Intelligence: The Melding of Human and Machine

There is a scene in the old movie 2001: A Space Odyssey where astronaut Dave is battling with the malevolent supercomputer Hal 9000 as both tumble through space, with the very existence more…

TechXtra No. 4-Digital Imaging

In the classic Disney movie “Tron,” a computer hacker is captured by a rogue super-computer, cut into digital cubes and sucked by a camera-like device inside the machine where he must battle more…

TechXtra No. 3.2-Robotics Part II

Call it mission impossible—for humans, that is. But, for a pair of intrepid robot geologists, trekking the surface of Mars is doable, dude. That’s why two powerful more…

TechXtra No. 3-Robotics Part I

In the “Matrix” movies, robots rule. Everyday life isn’t real but a “virtual reality” that robots, with their superior artificial intelligence, have created to enslave humans. Today’s bots aren’t that more…

TechXtra No. 2-Nanotechnology

Think your Pentium 4 or iMac G4 is hot stuff? What if you could get more speed and memory from a supercomputer no bigger than a grain of salt? What if video games could deliver virtual more…

TechXtra No. 1- Satellite Radio

Rocket science finally rocks. And it is rocking the world of radio with static-free music that sounds as good as the tunes from your CD player.  Linkin’ Park won’t fade out when driving up a more…