Tech Article 12/7

    

In resent news Alec Baldwin was removed from a plane for playing a popular Facebook game; Words with Friends.  He then tweeted about it claiming an attendant "reamed him out for playing the game."  The ban was instituted because the FCC suspected that the radio frequency emitted by cell phones could malfunction an airplane's equipment systems.  People began supporting his views and made the above image stating  "Let Alec Play"

Tech Article 12/1/11

Captive Media created a urinal mounted, urine-controlled games console for men. You don't use your hands and you the urinal uses infa-red technology to infer where you are peeing to determine the score.  The sensor unit is contactless and does not use a camera, another important design consideration.

Once they have finished their business, customers can use their mobile phones to post their scores to Twitter and a live leader board.

We are also installing units in ladies' toilets, to address the issue of long waiting times”

tech article 11/18

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www.earthcam.com/statueofliberty/ The statue of Liberty has recently installed web camera's at key points on the statue. This new edition was to give visitors a new look at the statue and of the harbor surrounding it.  This can be viewed on the website link above and people from other countries can see constant video of the statue

My weekend 11/14/11

Mostly I sat at home or went out with friends, but on Sunday I took part in a walk across the George Washington Bridge with the Girl Scouts.  We walked across the bridge for the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting.  We walked across the GW bridge in symbolism of our bridging when we go from daises to brownies to juniors ect.  After the walk we had 2 dance classes 3 bouncy houses, a rock wall, and lunch.  

When working on  the marking period project I realized what I didn't like about social networking sites.  This class also has thought me about google docs.  I use this in my English class with Ms.Hunter and in Science with Mrs. Graziano.

http://www.trntbl.me/v0ldem0rt

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Tech Article 10/28/11

The Lytro camera only has two buttons, 'on/off' and the shutter button.
There’s no focus ring and no autofocus.  The camera offers a new technology that  takes every possible picture at once, ‘focusing’ on everything in a picture in one shutter-click.
When you look at Lytro pictures on a computer i phone or tablet  you can simply touch on anything in the photo to focus on it. It's an idea that could completely change photography.