Thursday, January 14, 2016

Pocket-Sized Device Charges Your Phone with Water


The JAQ fuel cell charger would allow you to charge your smartphone without an electrical outlet, say at the beach.
  • Swedish startup MyFC unveiled its cool technology on Jan. 6
  • this device charges your phone without an electric outlet
  • it's a fuel cell charger that uses saltwater and oxygen to convert chemical energy into electricity
  • The charger consists of a credit card-shaped "power card" that contains saltwater and a hollowed out port
  • the card fuels electricity-producing chemical reactions when you slip the card into the port. 
  • To get that electricity to your phone's battery, you simply plug your phone into the port with a standard cable

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Post Assessment

  My favorite restaurant is Sofia's Mediterranean Grill in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ.

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      The type of food they serve is Greek dishes. Their mediterranean food is something out of the ordinary that is good to eat any time of the day. They make dishes from soups to salads to sandwiches to items from the grill. They even have seafood and deserts for anyone who wants it. My favorite dish from there is the chicken gyro, which is chicken served in a pita with tzatziki. They give you the choice of french fries, rice pilaf, or greek salad on the side.
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        My second favorite dish is Greek salad. It has romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, dolmades, olives, and feta for dressing. Sofia's Mediterranean Grill is a family owned and operated restaurant with over twenty years of experience. They have always strived to make sure their family dishes are served with the freshest ingredients. This is my favorite restaurant because of not only how good the food is, but also how clean and organized the restaurant is. The staff is always nice and the food comes out fairly quickly.
       I can go there any time of day because it is very close to where I live. If Sofia's closed down, I would go eat at "It's Greek To Me" in Clifton. It is the same kind of food as Sofia's and a little farther away from where I live. The owner of Sofia's used to own It's Greek To Me, so I would assume the food would be very similar. Sofia's is open six days of the week, not including Sunday, from 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM. I think Sofia's is a restaurant that everyone should experience, opposed to the same old take out food.







Sunday, December 20, 2015

Tech Article

These smart socks pause Netflix if you fall asleep

  • Netflix provided instructions to build socks that detect when you've dozed off and send a signal to your TV, automatically pausing your show
  • they did this so you don't have to wake up two seasons later wondering what happened
  • Building the electronics set-up is step two. 
  • This includes an accelerometer (to detect when feet have stopped moving), IR LEDs (to send a signal to the television) and a battery.
  • The electronics are then inserted into the socks. 
  • Netflix directs users to strap a pulse sensor to their toe.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Questions 12/16

  1. What's another way you can organize and store information on your computers?
You can add the information you want to save to a file or folder. 
  1. What have you learned from researching the above topics? What do you know now about those current events that you didn’t know before?
I learned he most current information and news about each topic. 
  1. What are other social bookmarking apps/websites?
Delicious.
  1. Will you continue to use social bookmarking?
Yes, it it useful. 

Monday, December 14, 2015

Do Now 12/14

     If I was given an invisible cloak for one day to perform a good deed and become an unrecognized hero I would deliver presents to kids that can't get any on Christmas. There are many kids around the world who are fortunate enough to wake up to many presents on Christmas morning. However, some don't have family, homes, or other things that get in the way of gift receiving. I would go to a child homeless center without the cloak on, just to find out what one little toy the child would like to get. Then, Christmas Eve, I would put the cloak on and set the display of toys up that each child asked for.
   I think it is very important for every child to get the experience of a Christmas morning. Thinking that, I would continue the tradition of gift gifting every year after that, to make sure they are happy kids every year. I would also use the cloak to decorate the inside and outside of wherever they are staying with Christmas blow ups, lights, and many other things. Lastly, I would set up food for the whole place to have a special holiday meal. I would hope I would make a lot of people happy on the day I was given an invisible cloak.

Monday, December 7, 2015

Do Now 12/7

       The one class I would like to add to our curriculum that we don't already have is photography. I think photography is a fun activity students would enjoy doing. In addition, it would also teach new things. The class would meet every day as an elective, just like any other class we already have in the curriculum. They would meet every day to take pictures of things that inspire them, interst them, or just something they feel like taking a picture of.
      They would go in all sorts of enviroments inside and out of the school. Also, at differnt seasons, so the qualities of each season can be captured in a picture. It would be a small class, so each student can be provided with a high tech camera they dont have to share with a partner. The teacher would then take his or her class wherever they feel is the best place to take pictures at that moment. The students would print out the pictures the take, explain what was going on and why they chose to photograph it, and also give it a name. The photography class would make students feel like real photographers, and would help any child who wanted to work in that field in the future.