Poster presentation!

I really enjoyed the other poster presentations, the technology presented on Monday and Friday were very innovative and different. My presentation was on Google Wave, I thought it would give people a better use of the internet in a more quick and concise way. I felt that something like Google Wave could make e-mail obsolete with all the benefits it comes with and the live interactivity. I went through a tutorial with the people who looked at my poster and they seemed very interested in it. What I thought was really cool was how Google plans on working with other technologies such as wikis to end some problems like editing wars.

Something my mom would like...

Technology can be anywhere, even in a measuring cup. A digital measuring cup that my mom might find use for, who says this stuff is just for kids. The cup makes sure you get the exact measurements with it's little screen on the side that tells you exactly how full it is. No more bending to counter length to make sure you got it right, this thing takes cooking to a whole new level, I like it and my mom will, too!

Comfort doesn't have to cramp your style!

Comfort definitely doesn't have to cramp your style, unless crocs are your thing. This awesome new chair is one popular sciences more interesting gadgets this year. The steel case cobi, is an awesome chair engineered for your behind and your back, too! "This chair supports both pristine posture and fidgety contortions. The back, made of flexible glass-reinforced nylon bars, conforms to your shape even if you sit side-saddle. The rubbery top bends if you hang your arm over it" And not to mention it looks pretty cool, too! http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/gallery/2009-09/megagoods-2009

Save our music on the guitar!

Here's an easier way of not forgetting the awesome songs that you come up with, Ovation Idea guitar! Talk about innovative, imagine the time you'll save from not having to stop every five seconds to record what you just came up with, this guitar will do it for ya!!! It's got a built in Mp3 recorder and I think it looks pretty sweet! I would definitely get myself one of these if I knew how to play the guitar, unfortunately even if I did.... I have no money to buy it, but I think it's a big step in the music industry's technology, I do hope they can come up with more awesome gadgets like this! Truly, I am impressed!

Keep playing video games, keep exercising!

So with the increase in popularity of games such as dance dance revolution, kids are staying in, but at least they are still moving. I like to play rock band a whole lot, and although I do lay around on the couch, I think all we need is the right combination of active video games to get my moving. Tiger Electronics came up with this ting called U-dance it's a little more awesome than your average DDR set, no mat involved...Huzzah! It senses motion, which is pretty badass and uses movement waves to track what your doing, basically taking what the wii has been doing to the next level, if it were a lot cheaper($80) I would be a lot more likely to get it! :) but you can check it out here: http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/gallery/2009-09/megagoods-2009

Artificial intelligence, another one bites the butt! :P

Remember the whiny child in AI, he got on my nerves because he thought he was real, do you think technology will reach that point where robots think they are human? Hopefully, we'll be smart enough to put a stop to that. MIT is rebuilding artificial intelligence from the ground up according to a recent article in popular science. http://www.popsci.com/category/tags/robots
I think to me it's all really going to depend on the programming, I think with movies we get too carried away with a fantasy storyline where what humans create backfire. You never really know, but I hope that when it comes down to everything, these MIT people program artificial intelligence in a way where it works for everyone and does it bite us in the butt.

Ride the wave! The google wave!

Talk about comparing the world wide web to an ocean where you can surf the different sites, google wave is going to make interaction within a Web 2.0 base so much easier efficient and allow a wider array of modes to do it with. Cloud computing can be done with google wave and the sharing abilities are limited, but I mean how much do people want to share anyway. If we try to share anything else would be transporting ourselves through computers and I think that kind of technology is way ahead of us still. To me it looks like it is compacting most of the things we already have into one more regulated form of programming. I think it's interesting but I have yet to see what it can really do and I am also looking forward to it. The more personal our internet lives are the more we find it easier to be efficient!