Blog Post 10/30

Nintendo goes mobile -- not with Mario, but 'Miitomo'

• Nintendo finally announced its first-ever smartphone app called "Mitomo."

• lets people create their own video game characters and interact with other players' avatars.
• The game mimics a social network
•  promises a "secure and welcoming" environment for communicating with old friends, and making new ones.
• Miitomo will release in March of next year.

Hendo Hoverboard

This is the new version of the Hendo hoverboard

• The  Hendo hoverboard has a better battery life, USB connectivity, stronger hover engines, and a safety kill switch.

• Its looks more rideable than the big, plastic version tried last year.

•  It has a real skateboard deck this time around, grip tape and all.

• It supposedly let riders shift their weight much like you would on a real skateboard.
  
  
• This new hoverboard will be making its way to the Kickstarter backers who pledged $10,000 to the company last year.

Do Now 10/19

Google Forms can help students and other people in many different ways. It can help you create surveys and find out different opinions of what the survey is about. Also, it can also help you find data for people's answers. Lastly, it can make you challenge yourself by thinking about each question carefully.

The 17-Year-Old Who Makes Walking Safer

• Mary Hood was worried that her 85-year-old grandmother, who has a cane, could fall and get hurt.

• She developed a smart cane that vibrates in its users' hands when it detects near obstacles.

• It also has a flashlight, pulse monitor, and smartphone-connected medication reminder. 

Toyota Promises Driverless Cars On Roads By 2020

• A modified Lexus GS, was tested on Tokyo's Shuto Expressway, where it carried out a range of automated man oeuvres.

• It included merging into highways, changing lanes, and keeping inter-vehicular distance.

• The car uses multiple external sensors to recognize nearby vehicles and hazards, and also selects appropriate routes depending on where its going.

• It automatically operates the steering wheel, accelerator, and brakes to drive in much the same way as a person would. 

• The car can only be operated in the more straightforward driving conditions of a main road.

This Ring Vibrates When Uber Arrives

• Christina Mercando d’Avignon is the founder of the new smart jewelry startup called Ringly.
• The ring connects to the Ringly app where women can customize which phone calls, texts and app alerts filter through to the ring.
• They can be notified by vibrations from the ring or it lighting up.
• So far, Ringly has raised 6.1 million.
• The device connects to 50 apps including Uber, Tinder, and eBay.

Best Improvements in iOS 9

•  Easier App Switching- when you launch the App Switcher, it opens apps to the left in a carousel-like view, which you can flip through until you find the app that you want.

•  Battery Saver- warnings pop up when your losing battery, and it lets you switch to Low Power Mode.

•  A More Conversational Siri- Siri can now bring up photos keyed to specific times and places

•  Better Navigation Via Back Buttons- a handy software-based Back is available in certain situations

•  A Place for Your Selfies-iOS 9's photo app will create a special place for them; a Selfie Album