Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions.

Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions

The History & Future of Communication, Part 2

A mobile phone mounted on the helmet of a blind skier allows her to compete in the Paralympics; how mobile phones are being used to test for vision problems in young children and to track sounds in the rainforest. (30 minutes)

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Mon, 11/17 at 9:00 am on Austin PBS Create

Teach Me Something New -- South Florida

Burt's son Nicholas joins him in South Florida to learn how to surf fish, scuba dive, take photographs in a bird sanctuary and how to cook and eat a lobster. (30 minutes)

Mon, 11/17 at 4:00 pm on Austin PBS Create

Teach Me Something New -- South Florida

Burt's son Nicholas joins him in South Florida to learn how to surf fish, scuba dive, take photographs in a bird sanctuary and how to cook and eat a lobster. (30 minutes)

Mon, 11/24 at 9:00 am on Austin PBS Create

The History & Future of Communication, Part 1

Tracing the history and future of communication; the development of writing, early cave paintings, ideagram and the history of communications in China; early telephones, the first mobile phone and the first days of Google, Microsoft and Apple. (30 minutes)

Mon, 11/24 at 4:00 pm on Austin PBS Create

The History & Future of Communication, Part 1

Tracing the history and future of communication; the development of writing, early cave paintings, ideagram and the history of communications in China; early telephones, the first mobile phone and the first days of Google, Microsoft and Apple. (30 minutes)