Cool new blog tech

This week Engadget reported on a human exoskeleton which has been created by Pansonic. Although it only covers your legs and its arms are rather short, it has the ability to make your legs lift 40 extra kilograms. It seems to me that this is the dawn of a new age of robot human integration. It is only a matter of time before these exoskeletons can encompass the body and will be used for military activities. Although I doubt I will be alive to see it, I think it will be fascinating to see the day when such technology can be integrated into every life. After watching the movie Pandora, people might tend to think that such technology could only be bad, but they might be interested to know some of the benefits of it. The technology could help firemen and policemen do their jobs better as well as help people survive stressful situations better. Overall I think that it is a neat technology which will better the quality of life and be fun to play around with

Weekly comp sci update

Last week in computer science we started manipulating and changing strings of text and began using if statements. The only trouble I had with the strings was the formatting and syntax within the program. Other then figuring out the new printing commands it was fairly easy. The if statements were a bit more difficult but only due to the fact that I did not have much time to get the concept on the day we worked on it. I think that going over the power point and go over some of the easier labs then I will get it. I missed last Friday's class so otherwise the week was uneventful.

New blog tech

This week I read about a new study on robots in Engadget. The study found that if a baby sees a robot interacting with someone else in a freindly way, and is then left in a room with that robot for a while, then the baby will beleive that the robot is sentinent. The study showed that the baby will not beleive this unless it sees someone else communicating with the robot before hand though. I thought this was interesting because it shows that the way that a robot behaves is more important than its apearance. I thought that people interested in the "robot appocolypse" would like to see this, because it shows one more way in which a robot could enslave us. They could manipulate the young and then grow a generation of brainwashed soldiers. While this might seem rediculous I thought it was rather funny and might make good material for a sci-fi. Overall I do not think that this study is all that important, but it provided some humorous information which I think others will enjoy.

Weekly comp sci update

This week in computer science we did not do too much. We had one day off and the rest of the time we were either taking a quiz or doing some labs. The labs are starting to get more difficult now too. I think this might be due to the fact that our teacher did not have the opportuninty to present the power point which explained the topic. That normally helps me and at least a few of my other class rooms. These labs are still kind of confusing to me. We have to manipulate strings of text to show individual letters or parts of the phrase. I do not quite get where you put the println stuff and where to define different parameters within the code. This becomes rather agravating when you can do everything but trouble shoot due to the lack of a print. I have tried asking around and hopefully next week we can go over the ppt, but until then I will be in the dark.
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New blog tech

This week I found out that google has been doing some pretty nifty stuff recently. Engadget reported that google has developed and is driving robotic cars around California. The cars are still in early stages, but they are able to sense their surroundings and make decisions for humans accordingly. These cars could be safer, and thus need less reinforcements, and because of that more fuel efficient and eco-friendly. I thought that this was a really good idea, because if you can just set your car on cruise, then there should be less accidents due to drunk driving, texting or talking on the phone. If the technology advances enough, then your car might even be able to communicate with other cars, and plan routes to avoid traffic or even drive through intersections safely. I thought that many people just learning how to drive would find it interesting to see how driving might change in the future for the better or worse. The only flaw I saw in this system would be security. If someone could hack into a car, they could remotely control it and drive you off of a cliff. Also, if people become too reliant on the cars to drive and the signal is blocked (as is proper military procedure when invading a country) then the roadways would be clogged and backed up and everyone would be sitting ducks. Aside from those worries, which will probably never happen anyways, I think that this new car is a great idea, and hope that it might be for sale in a few years.

The weekly compsci update

This week, class was pretty tame. We did a couple of labs but none of them were too difficult. I managed to pick out how to do the first few labs and after that it was simple to use the same concepts on slightly different problems. One thing that I noticed, was how annoying order of operations could be within J creater though. We had to make a root solver (using the quadratic formula) but it just wouldn't work for my colleagues and I. After about half an hour of trouble shooting we finally realized that we just needed to put some parenthesis within the equation and it would work. This was really frustrating, because the formula was large enough that it was easy to miss something so simple. Otherwise, class has been pretty good. I am starting to understand the basics of java, and due to the miniature presentations at the start of class, I learn the concepts pretty quickly. That is all for this week, cya later.

Cool new blog technology

This week in blogging I found two really interesting things from Engadget. The first cool thing I found was that Toshiba is coming out with a glasses free 3D TV. It is called the Regza 20GL1, and like in the name it has a 20 inch screen. It comes out in Japan in December but is fairly expensive ($2885). I thought that this was neat because I have heard other people say that 3D TV is a really good idea, but that the glasses are unwieldy and annoying to wear. The people that I have talked to seemed like they would enjoy the 3D TV even if it is not quite as sleek as other TV’s yet and does not have a very large display. The other interesting blog post from Engadget was a pedaling powered monorail. It appeared to be a series of large bubbles on a track which one could get inside and pedal around. This appeared to be pretty ridiculous, but I realized that quite a few people would enjoy it. You would get to whiz around in the sky in a glass bubble powering your vehicle with only your strength. While it may not be a practical method of transportations, because something like that would get congested with traffic pretty quickly at rush hour, it seems like a fun recreational vehicle. I thought that it would be a neat thing to have in parks to transport people from one area to another, and that people would enjoy a new form of ecofriendly exercise.

The weekly compsci update

This week we took the grading period final and worked on several computational math labs. At first I had no clue how to even go about coding these labs but after studying several other labs I managed to input a few lines of code in order to make the computer calculate simple addition problems. Once this was realized I quickly made progress on the rest of the labs. I found that by using similar code on the rest of the calc math labs I could multiply, divide, and do almost any other form of basic math. This made it fairly easy but repetitive to go through the labs. One thing which I found to be very useful was the presentation at the beginning of class right after the test day. I found this to help a lot with understanding how to do the labs. It helped me at least understand the concept of what to do, even if I did not quite understand how to implement them at first. I find that explanations from the teacher generally tend to help. Even If it does not fully explain the lab, it helps me understand the concepts and prepare for tests and quizzes.This week we took the grading period final and worked on several computational math labs. At first I had no clue how to even go about coding these labs but after studying several other labs I managed to input a few lines of code in order to make the computer calculate simple addition problems. Once this was realized I quickly made progress on the rest of the labs. I found that by using similar code on the rest of the calc math labs I could multiply, divide, and do almost any other form of basic math. This made it fairly easy but repetitive to go through the labs. One thing which I found to be very useful was the presentation at the beginning of class right after the test day. I found this to help a lot with understanding how to do the labs. It helped me at least understand the concept of what to do, even if I did not quite understand how to implement them at first. I find that explanations from the teacher generally tend to help. Even If it does not fully explain the lab, it helps me understand the concepts and prepare for tests and quizzes.