Most Human-Like Robot

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have made the most man like robot. It has muscles and bones and looks like the Terminator. It is 5 feet tall and weighs 110 pounds. He also has 160 artificial muscles through out his body.

New Wireless Card Reader

This small tablet like device is able to connect to your mobile device. By putting in a  camera SD card, you can wirelessly connect to your wireless device or computer. It can connect and send the pictures to the device so you dont have to use wires and possibly break it and have to spend your money to buy a new one. The battery lasts nine hours of use and is priced a little higher than $97 dollars.

RSS Discussion

1.Why did you select the sites you subscribed to? I selected them because they are in my personal interests and i WOuld like to know more about those subjects 2.Was it easy to find feeds and to subscribe to them? Yes it was because after your techings i was able to understand the project and what i was required to do. 3.Which sites were your favorites? The site with my favorite youtube channel, Smosh was my favorite. 4.What else can you use RSS feeds for? For when you have limited time and need to know various thing on various subjects. 5.How likely are you to continue to use RSS feeds in the future? I am likely to continue using RSS feeds because if i have limited time i will need to find all my information fast.

Generator Turns Train Vibrations into Energy

With all the power outs from storms, especially Hurricane Sandy, causes generators to be very important. With 140,000 train tracks all over the nation, Stone Brook University found out a way to turn the vibrations into usable electricity. When the vibrations move the earth which the generator is on, it converts it into electricity. By installing 10,000 of these, all electrical bills lower by half a million.

My Voki

Sony Struggles With Sales.

PSVita isn't getting as many sales as Sony had hoped. In fact, its nowhere near the expectations. Nintendo's 3DS though, is beating PSVita in sales 47 to 1 (187,077 to 5,021.) When it was first released, they sold 325,000 in the first week of sales, then dropped by 80% after. Sony hit a low sale, they haven't had in 32 years, their stocks dropped nearly 9% since they've hired a new chief in the company.

Tech Article 11-6

                                     Artificial Molecule Could Stop Allergic Reactions

 

 

    Some allergies such as a peanut allergy or a bee sting, could potentially hospitalize or kill the person allergic. People from Stanford University of Medicine has found something that should be able to stop severe allergic reactions, in seconds. When a regular allergen enters the body, the body creates a type of antibody, which stays in the body afterwards. When the same allergen enters the body, it binds with the antibody causing those cells to release inflammatory mediators, which causes a severe allergic reaction. Its called DARPin E2-79 and it contains a certain protein which stops the antibody.

             

 



Minecraft Officially Better than Modern Warfare 3

Minecraft has brought many different new things to the Xbox version of the game. THey got a new software update, allowing survival and creative modes and also new skin packs from Half Life and Left 4 Dead. All of this helped minecraft become the most played multipayer game on the Xbox360, now in the lead of Modern Warfare 3. Here's the oder of top 20 multiplayer games




1. "Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition"
2. "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3"
3. "EA Sports FIFA Soccer 13"
4. "Call of Duty: Black Ops"
5. "Borderlands 2 "
6. "Halo: Reach"
7. "Battlefield 3"
8. "Modern Warfare 2"
9. "Madden NFL 13"
10. "NBA 2K13"
11. "Happy Wars"
12. "Skyrim"
13. "Gears of War 3 "
14. "RESIDENT EVIL 6"
15. "GTA IV"
16. "FIFA 12"
17. "Forza Motorsport 4"
18. "Dishonored"
19. "EA SPORTS NHL13"
20. "Halo 3 "

Wiki Research

The benefits of using a wiki is its quick and easy to organize information for a group. We can make a wiki on this class involving information about this subject and class projects on the subject. I created a wiki in this class last year but I have forgotten my username and password.

Tech Article 10-19

Why Some Facebook Users Believe they Should be Payed for Giving Personal Information

Most people feed facebook their personal informationsuch as their likes, dislikes, associates, politic and religious beliefs, and your relationship status, which are just some examples. Which gives advertisers many useful data on potential customers or clients.

Which is why two New York professors believe users should be payed for selling their information.
Their idea is if facebook gives them a monthly pay for their personal information,(also giving them the right to sell that information to advertisers) will be a "Win-Win" situation. Being that facebook would make much more money off of advertisers, for a small fee and the users would make profit off their favorite website.

Apple to Unveil iPad Mini on October 23rd

On October 23rd, Apple if planning to hold an invitation only event. They planned to make this to compete with their cheaper tablet competitors. By miniaturizing the tablet, the prices become cheaper and they get more sales. It also fixes the sizing problems that people have. Personally, I believe this is a waste of money and is exactly the same as the iPod Touch.

Google Cuts more Motorola Jobs than Expected

In August, Google announced they would lay off Motorola Employees at an estimated 20% of the jobs. Now, it has moved up to a 23% job reduction. The plan also includes them slosing 30% of their facilites, located all around the world. After all the price cuts and cut offs, they ended gaining 0.7%, leaving stock prices at $768.05 on Thursday.

Stingray "Photobomb" Goes Viral

 In Stingray City, a popular tourist attaction in the Cayman Islands, three girls try to take a picture to remember their summer but a man decides to pick up a stingray and hold it behind their backs. Stingray City sent advertisements reading "Come kiss a Stingray" they provide you with small pieces of squid to feed them. They are friendly and will follow you around until you give them food.  Most photobombs show people making faces in the backround to ruin the picture. This time, it is done by a stingray.

My Weekend

My weekend was pretty dull, friday i did nothing until dinner time, which is when i ate chicken. The next day, i went to new york and ate at a restaurant and ate chicken there.
 Then sunday, i stayed home, as all my friends hate me and were bust because they had a tutor, or were grounded. SO i just played minecraft.  Until dinner, where i had leftover chicken. Then i went back to minecraft.


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Tech Article 9-21

                             New "Apple Maps" Not Doing as Well as Apple has Hoped.
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    Recently, Apple came out with the new "Apple Maps" but it isn't doing very well and sadly, things aren't getting better anytime soon. Most mapping systems are built on huge sets of data that is constantly updating and optimizing but Apple's maps are older and much less optimized. Some examples are, telling you to go across a road closed for months, or telling you you've reached the freeway, which doesn't make users happy. Some problems will be fixed in iOS 6 but most are still stuck and won't be updated for a while.

What I did During the Summer

Mostly, my summer was mostly mediocre. Nothing was too exciting and I had no vacations this time. I played minecraft and did barely anything else, as there weren't many vacations.Click here to see.
I also usually went to go running, with my iPod.

First Blog Post 2013

Hello, my name is Josh and this is my blog. This year i will be posting about various parts of technology. Here is probably the best song i have ever heard, especially about bears.

One THOUSAND Page View Post :D

Hello my blog viewers (although i have no idea who you are, your names or where you live but thanks for your viewing!) Well guys, (you might be females but I'm not sure because I dont know who you are (Mentioned earlier)) I seriously have no idea where these 1000 pageviews are but thanks and keep up the views please :) So, i figure we should have a party right? AMIRITE BOIS? WELL THEN, too bad because i dont have the funds, so ill just ask you to post a comment about WHY you actually watch this, considering i dont post anything fun. so, ill just leave you with this video then.
Sorry guys, i forget the name of the video when she's petting some weird koalathigns bellay and its making funny noises, ill just leave you with something equally funny.

Tech Article 9-14

                         Xbox 360 Minecraft Considering to Bridge 1.8.2 and 1.2.3


      

          Many minecraft players on the Xbox 360, have anticipated the 1.2
update, which the computer version has already received many months ago and is now in 1.3.2 but for Xbox, they are only getting 1.8.2 soon, which adds things such as creative mode, villages, ravines and more but thats not due for a couple weeks. So, now the creaters of minecraft have now decided to have an update in between the two, so they aren't waiting too long for a new update.

Diigo

Diigo is a useful tool for education.This is because all you need to find something on the subject is look it up. If you need math, you type Math in and it shows relating to the subject. If you have something specific in math such as Square Root so you'd look it up and give you a much more specific answer. Then looking at the pages will help learn the subject.

Apple's New "Spaceship" Campus

Assumed to be finished by 2015, Apple has decided to create a "Spaceship" campus. It will cover 2.8 million square feet with its own power plant inside and it will also be covered with solar panels and house 13,000 people, also another 6,000 trees. It will be a four story research facility, not open to the public with over 1,000 seats. Though they will only be used for product unveiling. I think this is a huge project and will be done later than 2015.

Tech Article 5-11

Anonymous Hacks Russian's President's Website
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Anonymous is famous for hacking Facebook websites and other sorts but now they've taken it to a new level. On May 9th, they hacked into President Vladimir Putin's website and shut it down. Their reason for doing this is a protest on President Vladimir Putin's third six-year term in service as president in Russia. They also hacked an F.B.I. conference in February.

Tech Article 5-4

App Store's Download Count Decreased Click Here for Full Article

A recent study by Fiksu shows that since February, the daily count of app downloads has decreased by about 2 Million. Some people think the drop is from lack of apps that interest people. In my opinion people have just bought so many apps, the storage space has no more room. Also, top apps drop from the top because since everybody who has it and wants it can't buy it again since they already have it, they lose downloads.

Summer Break

Its April now but I still have a good idea of what my Summer Plans will be. On July 7th I will be riding my orange flying unicorn to Uranus. When i get back i will sit on my couch and feed potato chips to my pet Loch Ness monster.
 

Tech Article 4-20

Sony Releases Hardware Independent Play Station Games

  Sony recently certified other system manufacturers compatible with "Play Station Suites" will allow Play Station games to be purchased and played there. So far though, the only ones currently running this are some of Sony's smartphones and tablets. I think this is a good idea because people who have Xbox or Wii instead of Play Station 3 and a game comes out they want they can buy and play it.

Tech Article 4-20

                    The show 'Spongebob' Causes Brain Damage In Children

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 Watching just a bit of the hit kids show 'Spongebob' can cause headaches to some people but psychologists show that its not only very annoying but can also cause brain damage in preschoolers and even kids slightly older. Angeline Lillard and Jennifer Peterson from Virginia's department of psychology wanted to test if it had immediate influence on kid's skills including attention, memory, problem solving and delay of gratification. They made a group of 60 4 year olds to three groups. One that watched nine minutes of fast paced show about an "entertaining sponge" one that watched a slower paced PBS show and another that was asked to draw. Afterwards they were asked to take four tests to check the effect. The ones who watched spongebob did significantly worse.

      

Spring Break

Monday I went to the mall to get some things.

Tuesday and Wednesday I went to the Bronx.

Thursday, Saturday and Sunday I stayed home.

Friday I went to chuck e. cheese for my cousin's birthday.

Voki

3-23-12

Nook Color Vs. The IPad 3
If you are somebody who is looking for a lightweight tablet that isn't too big people would suggest the Nook. The nook is lightweight and isn't too big. If you were to be a young kid carrying the Ipad with one hand you might drop it because of its heaviness. If you are looking for a tablet because of the apps, ipad has a much bigger selection.

Tech Article 3-16

              Sony Tablet

Sony recently came out with something new called the Sony Tablet 2. It has two screen with optimized apps, sharp, bright dual screens.Those are only the pros though. The cons include: flimsy design, minuscule internet
capability, wild bezels and the optimized apps are limited. They probably made this to try to keep up with apple after its recently released IPad3. For Sony, this tablet isn't even close to being in the same league of tablets as the Ipad and possibly only as good or possibly worse than Verizon's Tablet.

Apple Takes on Television with the Ipad3

                                                 The Ipad3 has been made with more updates than the recent Ipad2.

I now has a better display than some average television sets. Which makes portable entertainment devices,

have to be made much better to be up to par with Apple's new Ipad3. Some say its so good, it is becoming a

threat to even television markets.

Survey for VirtuaPod

Tech Article 3-2

                                        Nintendo's 3DS and Sony's PS Vita Compete for Best Handheld
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It has most that people who like games want but it night not be enough. It has two analog sticks for control, 5 inch OLED, built in wi-fi (with optional 3G) and a camera on the front and back side.                                                    
                                   
 The Wi-Fi gives acces to Near, which allows them to see who is playing in the area and allows them to challenge them to a game. When it is released on Wednesday the wi-fi version will be $249.99 and the 3G version is $299.99.

What I Did Over the Weekend

                                                                    I went to New York on Sunday and went to AMC in Bay Plaza.

      After the movies we got a bus and went back to my Grandfathers house. Later my mother came from work and we went to eat dinner. We got home late and i got to sleep late. Saturday we went for dinner with my aunt uncle and cousin because it was my cousin's birthday.

Tech Article 2-17

             Apple's New Mountain Lion Update Does Better Than Personal Computers
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Apple's Update Mac OS X is Apple's most important product line. Apple announced its Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion update and showed a preview of it


It cost customers $29.99 for the last two updates but apple hasn't given any news about how much this new update will cost but the customers of the last two updates also want to buy the new update as well.

Winter

I like the winter because of the snow. I take my sled, find the steepest hill and slide down it, sometimes standing up.

      

First Post

Hello, I am Josh, I like anime and dislike football. I have a brother and two dogs. I have two other friends who likes anime.