this article is about a company called The Defense Advanced Research Priojects Agency who is asking anyone who can help them help make their already impressive robots even better. They've made robots that can walk, crouch, climb up stairs, and even robots that can do push ups. i found this very interesting and it relates to this class because we need to learn more about how we can use our computers to make advanced technology and make our lives just a bit easier.
This article is about the ten fastest computers in the world. they tell us about the speed of the computer, where they are, how pricey they are and other interesting facts about them. This is related to our class because we have been using computers during these classes, and this would be cool because we would see how advanced technology is now.
This article is about a group called One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) who donated two million five hundred thousand laptops to schools in Africa. They found out that laptops does not help improve test results in math and english for these children. Even though the laptops were stored with two-hundred books and reading/writing lessons, the kids did not score more then others on tests. this relates to our class because we use laptops for our classes.
This article is about the best ten waterproof smartphone cases. In this article, they have a brief description on the phone case and they also tell you the price of it. I find this very useful because people like my mom are always very scared of damaging their smartphones/iphones and they want the best case to protect it and this will help us choose a case to keep it safe. this relates to this class because we all have phones and we need to keep them safe.
A not so shocking discovery that apple and all apple products are produced in china and other places out side of America. Americans take pride in the facts that they are on top of one of the largest industries in the world. Although, if most of the products are being made out side of the states can Americans really take pride in Apple and be proud to call it their own when they are supplying jobs out of the country when America could use them most.
This site is about the top five headsets for you're computer or gaming system. They tell you the price of each headset, how good the audio is, and all of the little applications that it has. I thought that this article was interesting because I do a lot of online gaming and weather its starcraft or Call of Duty, I always like to be able to go the best audio and surround sound to get me really into the game. This is related to the course because its amazing.
This book mark is about an Android app called "Handy Scanner". This is an amazing app that allows you to take a picture of a piece of paper and make it more legible by zooming it more, cropping out anything in the background, making the picture gray scale etc. This is related to the course because this is a form of new technology. This is interesting and helpful because I always try to take pictures of notes with my blackberry, but the picture always comes out bad so I think this will help me very much.
this article is about a twenty six year old man named Glenn Mangham who hacked facebook and said it was to help them with their security issues. He was sent to jail for eight months and Facebook spent $200,000 dealing with this hacker. i thought this was interesting because it seemed pretty unbelievable one guy hacked into the biggest social networking site.
this article is about an NBA surprising superstar Jeremy Lin finally making a public Facebook account and it also talks about how famous he was on twitter becoming the all time biggest NBA player on twitter. I liked this article because i am a basketball fan and i'm also really liking Jeremy Lin right now and i can now subscribe to him on facebook.
this article is about smartphone apps that can help you even through the toughest valentine days. they talk about apps that'll help you get a cab for cheap, make dinner reservations at a restaurant, get a fast valentines gift, and help you make a sweet and loving card. I like this article and i find it very helpful because valentines day can get really stressful and this will help us guys get through it safely and not making a big dent in our wallets.