It's called the Museum of Jurassic Technology, and while you might run across a howling wolf, a rabbit, or a bird, you won't find any dinosaurs in this Los Angeles museum.
Double back and head up a block to Venice Boulevard to visit the Museum of Jurassic Technology (www.mjt.org), a deadpan collection of genuine fossilized curios and phony artefacts that feels like collaboration between Dave Eggers and David Lynch.
Timothy Conley, deputy director of the 88th Communications Group at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio estimates there are about 30 public websites maintained at the base - including pages for the United States Air Force Museum and the USAF Institute of Technology.
Steven Lubar is chairman of the history of technology department at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.
Augusta, who has represented collections for the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, bought it from a man who found it at an estate sale in Newark, N.
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Originally pioneered by the Boston Museum of Science and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the clubhouse model encourages participants to be creative with technology, whether they are making computer-generated art, developing Web pages or designing animations, according to Miguel Salinas, a spokesman for Intel.
The museum said the piece represented the end of a technology which had been "important to so many lives".
Think, for example, about how the American Museum of Natural History is using location-based technology to give visitors information on exhibits through their mobile devices.
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The Museum made a single capital investment to outfit their 40-year old building with WiFi, (about two months to install) and then the deployment of the Wifarer technology in the Museum took only two weeks.
Although touch-screen has long permeated the more mundane aspects of modern life such as ticket machines and tills, and provided interactive novelties in the guise of museum guides and quiz machines, applying this technology to the PC is a far more complex task.
Andy Clark, a director and trustee of the National Museum of Computing, said the vintage machines helped to generate interest in technology: "People come along, look at them, get engaged and interested, and that's our next generation of computer scientists".
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Created by Sharon Matt Atkins, the museum's managing curator of exhibitions, and Shelley Bernstein, its chief of technology, "GO" was modeled after ArtPrize, the annual event in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The inaugural special exhibition of Museum of the Moving Image, Real Virtuality, presents five experiments in art and technology that either draw visitors into immersive computer-generated environments or project digital environments into the physical space of the gallery.
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The Museum says the Wifarer technology has given them the ability to jump to the forefront of visitor engagement technology.
Standing in the Holocaust Memorial Museum and in one of his first public statements on the subject, US President Barack Obama acknowledged the role technology has played in enabling human rights abuses.
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With every passing day the 1992 Cable Act becomes more of a rabbit-ear relic of a bygone one-way communication era, something that more appropriately should be part of a museum exhibit or a history book not permanently driving the current and future trajectory of American video competition, technology and innovation.
It's also exciting to imagine just how such a tool might be utilized in a museum-like setting, and hopefully developers will take advantage of that SDK to develop some truly exciting applications for the technology.
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