DIY "Descriptive Camera"

So we all know what a camera does. It can take pictures or record videos. You can take those pictures and upload it on Facebook to share it with your friends, print it out and keep it in your living room or bed room in a frame, or just keep it in your camera for fun! So that's pretty cool. Being able to take a real life image and storing it in one device is one pretty hard device to make. Well guess what? Now there's a camera that prints out a description of what the picture you just taken looks like. This "Descriptive Camera" prints out a description and a picture of what the image looks like. Since it's a little too hard to take pixel by pixel and compare with others, they send it to a place called "Beaglebone" and have someone sort of describe it. It then is printed in the back of the camera.

I learned that technology is improving extremely quickly. First we had sticks and stones. Then we started to be able to forge steel and iron weapons and carve statues. Then the Renaissance came and improved painting and acting. Then guns were made and many technologies were made. Now we have today, the age of technology. We have amazing influences like Apple and it started with Windows. We have a non-colored and immobile camera, but now we have cameras that can take colored images and cameras that are able to describe something.

O'Brien, Terrence. "DIY 'Descriptive Camera' Captures Images, Prints out Prose." Engadget. Engadget, 25 Apr. 2012. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/25/diy-descriptive-camera-captures-images-prints-out-prose/?utm_source=twitterfeed>.

Anti-Trojan system being made by Apple

So as you all should know, there's a virus around the world called the "Trojan Virus" that infects other computers. The purpose of this is to prank another person, get secret information, and for business purposes. The Trojan Horse virus was named after the Greek story "Trojan War" where the Greeks tricked the people of Troy. They did this by giving the people of Troy a large fake horse filled with soldiers as a gift of peace. At night, the soldiers would break out of the horse and open the gates of Troy, allowing the rest of the Greek soldiers in and end the Trojan War. Now to the main point. Many Mac computers that were created by Apple, have started to get infected by the virus alone. An estimated 650,000 Macs are infected by the Trojan Horse. The Apple company is trying to find an anti-virus system that would detect and remove the virus.

So how does this benefit us, the world, and many others? Well it shows that Apple is a company dedicated to their customers and helping them create an anti-virus system. Since technology will be better in the future, you must be able to counter anything like viruses. Though it is very selfish of people to infect computers for their own good, you can't help it. You can instead find a way to improve your ways of getting uninfected and help others not get infected too.

"Apple Develops Tool to 'detect and Remove' Flashback Trojan." BBC News. BBC, 11 Apr. 2012. Web. 22 Apr. 2012. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17675314>.

Flying Cars? You bet

We may all think that movies are fake and that many creative and awesome things that come from movies cannot be brought into real life. All those stuffs like jet packs, hover boards, and flying cards may seem like an impossible thing to make, but with the technology, no way. Flying cars are now real. Totally real. A company called the Terrafugia have created the first flying cars ever. It may not be the one you think it is, with jet boosters and stuff, but it still has wings and is the first step in building flying cars. This flying car can really fly in the skies according to witnesses, pilots, and drivers.

So what does this tell us? Like everything related to technology, this tells us that mankind has evolved from being very simple cavemen, to people who can create cars that go against gravity. This may cure traffic jams and be an entire new step in human technology. People driving on the ground, people flying in the air, what next? People riding bicycles that are equipped with a jet booster? Who knows. It's technology and anything is possible.

Pachal, Peter. "Featured in Social Media." Mashable. Mashable, 6 Apr. 2012. Web. 11 Apr. 2012. <http://mashable.com/2012/04/05/terrafugia-transition-unfolds/>.

Portal 2

Everybody in this world loves different kinds of games. Violent games, action games, peaceful games, fun games, strategic games, puzzle games, storyline games, and all those different types. Well this game, Portal 2, is a puzzle game. Common sense tells us that this game is a sequel to Portal 1. Portal/Portal 2 is a first-person viewed puzzle game where you play as a character who has to solve and go through different kinds of puzzles. You are Chell, a mute woman who wakes up in a room with a robot named Glados who wants you to go through tests.

Imagine being in a lab, being the only person alive, in an abandoned military lab, with a robot trying to run tests on you. The storyline is a bit weird. When the lab was not abandoned, Chell tried to kill and run tests on Glados. After the lab got abandoned because of Glados, it turned the other way around. In Portal and Portal 2, Chell tries to live and go through Glados's puzzles. She also finds about what happened to the place. It's an amazing puzzle game where it never gets boring. In Portal 2, a robot named Wheasely tries to save you from Glados. Turns out, he's evil and takes over the place and tries to kill you. You help Glados, who becomes a potato, try to take back control. After you've done that and killed Wheasely, you go back to Earth through a long tunnel.

Lesson Learned: Biology class!

So does anyone wonder how life began? What's the purpose of life? How we are existing? Why are we what we are? Why animals think and react differently? Well most or all of those can be answered through science. In Mr.Brian's biology class, we learned something new, like we always do. We are starting to learn a hell lot about Biology. We finished learning about evolution and now we've moved on to a kinesis (reaction to something) of an animal. We're also learning about some body parts of humans, fishes, and amphibians but that will be explained later.

So what do you do when someone's about to punch you? You blink or use your reflexes to block the punch. That's a kinesis already. I did an experiment to test the kinesis of a turtle to see what reaction it would have when light shines on it. When I did the experiment, the turtle was scared of ANYTHING that moved very quickly in front of its face. It was an "innate response" or a response that happens and you can't help it because you're born that way. The baby turtle didn't care so maybe he was operant conditioned (learned) or maybe he was born not be super scared or it could be an imprinted response (learning in your early life that you remember forever) to not be scared of the light or maybe it didn't learn yet. That's all for this week and I'll see you next time!

ICT Class: Lesson learned!

So it's time for another lesson of Mr.Pete's super awesome class! Another day, another new thing learned, and another step to our careers. In Mr.Pete's amazing ICT class, we actually learn something new, not learning something like "this is a computer and this is a keyboard" or any of those stuff. They were important, but it's time to step up and who better to teach us than the super Mr.Pete. In this week (April) he was absent for the "main courses" so we had individual assessments.

Prior to the week Mr.Pete left for his stuff, we had to make a sketch of what our restaurant would look like and what the lengths would be. Using the stuff we learned from making our classrooms (windows, doors, walls, lengths, etc), we put it all together and many of us came up with extremely creative ideas. I made a simple structure, but it had many rooms. It was a building where there would be a hallway connecting to 4 places - the bathrooms, the entrance, and the dining halls. I may make a more creative design but I think it seems good enough. So that's all for today for Mr.Pete's super, awesome, amazing, ICT class and I'll see you next time!

A not-so-clear-but-good-enough diagram of what my restaurant MIGHT look like.