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.

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. 

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.

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.

 

RSS Discussion Questions

Why did you select the sites you subscribed to?
      They all seemed intersting and I liked to read articles on each site.

 Was it easy to find feeds and to subscribe to them?
     Yes.

Which sites were your favorites?
     The cheerleading and food sites were my favorite.

What else can you use RSS feeds for?

     To be updated on world events and news.

How likely are you to continue to use RSS feeds in the future?

     Not likely, I can just watch the news. 

Blog Posting 12/4

Earbud headphones that won't fall out of your ears

• Revols made headphones that mold to your ears

• morphs into a tight-fitting earbud in 60 seconds

• let buyers decide if they want to wear the the cords over their ears or under

• smartphone app syncs to the headphones via Bluetooth

• they'll retail for $299 when they arrive in stores