Tech article 5/1

A design from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Bremen, Germany, has landed on the chimpanzee as its model for robotic lunar missions. This is an animal that can stand on four legs, giving it stability, but can use its front two legs to hold objects. The chimp's greatest asset is that it can choose which form of movement best fits the situation.They can choose if the environment won't let you move in a stable fashion on two legs they can choose four. When the environment improves, two legs allows you to have a better view field.The robot can also walk up and down slopes of up to 20 degrees. The chimpanzee is not the only animal that is being studied by DFKI as a future model for a lunar robot. There are also plans for a lunar mantis and a lunar scorpion.

Tech Article 4/24

Given that both heads up displays for our cars and smart glasses are emerging product categories, it’s not surprising that a company would try to combine the two into a single product.  Mini’s new Augmented Vision, a set of driving goggles that brings some of the features of your standard heads-up display to a set of glasses, which uses connected eyewear and connected vehicles. By enetring your destination and plugging it into your car, it will give you driving and walking directions. While wearing the glasses arrows point on where to turn and the speed limit is. While driving it will also point out individual sites that you pass along the way, and also tells you available parking spaces.

Project Loon, Google's plan to bring the Internet to everyone

Project Loon is Google's bold experiment to bring the Internet to the world, ferried on the back of high-altitude balloons. The project has come a long way since it was first announced back in June of 2013. A balloon that once took 3 to 4 days to create can now be produced in a just a few hours. Google launches these balloons with automated cranes and can now launch dozens of balloons a day. And these can stay aloft for over a hundred days, a mission-control center has been set up to keep track of the thousands of balloons that will be maneuvering about the globe, guiding them into ideal places to maximize Internet coverage.

Spring Break

My spring break mostly consisted of me at home on my iPad, sleeping, and once in awhile I hung out with friends. On Friday I went to the mall with my friends and got Starbucks, and after the mall I went to go get a new iPhone. On Saturday I had a Track relay at 7:00 am to 3:00 pm, and I ran the 200 meter relay. Since my aunt went to Disney this Easter we had Easter dinner at my grandma's house. For Easter I got candy, clothes and a new coffee mug because I lost my old one.

On Monday I went to Arianna's house with Halie and we played volleyball. I also cracked my new phone case and got Ritas. On Tuesday I had track practice and when I got home I slept for two hours. On Wednesday I went to the movies with my friends, and then on Thursday and Friday I didn't really do anything. On Saturday my grandma came over and on Sunday I went out to eat with my family.

Fancy a game of Pac-Man? Head to Google Maps

You can now play Pac-Man right in Google Maps.  To play the game, simply go to Google Maps in a browser on your computer, or on the updated iOS and Android Google Maps apps, and find a location near you with a good amount of streets. From there, click the Pac-Man button in the bottom left corner, and Google will transform those streets into a playable version of Pac-Man. The controls are pretty simple: just tap on the up, down, left and right arrows to move Pac-Man around while you collect dots and cherries, all while avoiding being killed by ghosts. I guess this is Google's bizarre but amazing April Fools Prank.