Grant Opportunity:

Apple iPhone

"KPCB’s iFund™ is a $100M investment initiative that will fund market-changing ideas and products that extend the revolutionary new iPhone and iPod touch platform. The iFund™ is agnostic to size and stage of investment and will invest in companies building applications, services and components. Focus areas include location based services, social networking, mCommerce (including advertising and payments), communication, and entertainment. The iFund™ will back innovators pursuing transformative, high-impact ideas with an eye towards building independent durable companies atop the iPhone / iPod touch platform.

"A revolutionary new platform is a rare and prized opportunity for entrepreneurs, and that's exactly what Apple has created with iPhone and iPod touch," said John Doerr, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. "We think several significant new companies will emerge as this new platform evolves, and the iFundâ„¢ will empower them to realize their full potential."

Goals:

• Tie this project into a interactive learning environment COGS 329 Embodiment project. Kids could record clips from theatre performances, take pictures of art, record and play music clips and analyze data on the device by drawing and plotting data.

• Could install a visio like program to chart out the progress.

• Work with the pachyderm software to analyze.

• Work with programmers to analyze the amount to which the applications can be tweaked.Some good software may be possible. Apple would be a good company to get involved with.

• Design the wiki page on the device

• Apply for a grant that would cover an iphone for all the kids in the class possibly linked with the microsoft data managing system (Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync)

• Work on making the iphone an educational tool to allow for greater interactivity in the classroom

• Students could draw diagrams and plot data on the phone and they could be linked up to be displayed on the overhead screen