To operate the early Macintosh computers you had no keyboard, only this item which is named after a rodent.
What is a mouse?
100
Powerpoint has become a commonly used name for a programme that produces a slide show. It is, in fact, the product of this company.
What is Microsoft?
100
Invented around 300 BC this has been hailed the single most significant advance in human history and has give rise to the phrase: “Don’t reinvent the …”
What is the wheel?
100
He invented the metal detector, although he is better known for registering the first patent for the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100
The use of cell phones has been made simpler and more elegant by the introduction of this feature.
What is the Touch Screen?
200
If you have wireless network, one of these devices manages the signals.
What is a router?
200
Lecturers use this device to quickly poll a class and test its understanding of the material they are teaching.
What is Klicker?
200
Hundreds of years ago, an important piece of technology used in the classroom was a tablet constructed not of metal, but of this natural substance
What is the slate?
200
He revolutionized the lives of the average person when he invented the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb.
Who is Thomas Alva Edison?
200
Name one function of the Smartpen.
What is record audio, or digitize what is written with it.
300
This small but mighty storage device has many names, including one based on its resemblance to one of your fingers.
What is a thumb drive?
300
This word processor was produced by a Canadian company for use on PCs, not on MAC.
What is Word Perfect?
300
Until this component was invented, the computer remained a large piece of equipment.
What is the integrated circuit or the CHIP?
300
He has become one of the five richest men in the world as the founder and head of the larges software company. He is also famous for establishing, with his wide, a charitable foundation.
Who is Bill Gates?
300
This innovation in personal communication helps drivers avoid fines for distracted driving.
What is Bluetooth?
400
If you want to e-mail a printed photograph to a friend, you will use this to capture a digital copy.
What is a scanner?
400
The name of this software and the company that designed it, has become a synonym for searching for information on the world wide web?
What is Google?
400
His inventions, the printing press and movable type, revolutionized communication and empowered the lower levels of society by providing more affordable and durable forms of conveying information.
Who is Gutenberg?
400
He led Apple to prominence through the development of the IPOD and IPHONE.
Who is Steve Jobs?
400
This frees you from being connected by wires to your computer and other peripherals and has opened many possibilities for educators.
What is a wireless network?
500
This was one of the first electrical devices used to facilitate distance education for adults and children in Australia and North America.
What is the radio?
500
This software is designed to collect and organize large quantities of information.
What is a database manager?
500
In 1969, the ARPANET was developed by the US military as a means of sharing information across many centres in case of a nuclear attack. It was the forerunner of what we now know as the:
What is the World Wide Web or Internet?
500
He revolutionized e-commerce when he founded Amazon.com.
Who is Jeff Bezos?
500
You can now keep track of your physical state, and the progress of your workout or run using this. Its name begins with F and ends with T.