Design Brief

Our objective is to design and secure our egg with straws, yarn, and rubber band. Our criteria is that: we must create a model with all the materials provided staying within a fifty dollar budget. We will work in teams to create a model that looks exactly like our sketches we submitted. I liked the fact that this project required team work and putting our heads together. When we encountered an obstacle my partner and I had to put our heads together, work as a team, and try top come up with all possible solutions. We sketched out our model to demonstrate how the final product would come out. After many trial and error we tested our project and it did not crack. The thing I liked most about this project was that it took patience and required our minds to think outside the box using limited resources. Our model would have turned out better if our straws would have been more sturdy and not bent, holding tighter together. As many of our classmates did we could have constructed a safety net to put underneath the egg, as a support system in case the egg fell out. Other materials that would have been very useful for this project would have been tape, wooden sticks, a bigger budget, and thicker string.

CNN Week 6

Flappybird will be put back into the app stores. Let the flap less among us take heart. "Flappy Bird," the now defunct mobile sensation, will one day rise like a phoenix and fling itself awkwardly into an app store near you.Originally released last May, "Flappy Bird" had largely languished before a surge in popularity, starting around December, that would see it become the most downloaded app in both Apple's App Store and the Google Play store for Android devices. People who had already downloaded the app didn't lose it, but those who hadn't were out of luck.

CNN Week 5

In "Wireless Electricity" by Katie Hall she says that she was shocked the second she saw it: a light-bulb glowing in the middle of a room with no wires attached. Looking back, it was a crude experiment, she remembers: a tiny room filled with gigantic copper refrigerator coils(the kind you'd see if you cracked open the back of your freezer). The challenge now is increasing the distance that power can be transferred efficiently. This distance Hall explains is linked to the size of the coil, and WiTricity wants to perfect the same long-distance transfers to today's small-scale devices.

Week 7 Reflection

Copyright is the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same. Plagiarism on the internet is the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. Creative commons
licenses allow the "core right" to redistribute a work for non-commercial purposes without modification.

Week 6 Reflection

The seven resources are people, information, information, materials, energy, time, capital, and tools. People are what use the resources. Information is where we get our ideas from. Materials are what make the needs of people. Time is what helps us tell what time of the day it is. We need energy to help produce the needs.Tools help construct our technology. Capital is a form of money used for technology. I liked Prezi because it had lots of different ways of explaining the information needed to present. It had many different varieties and many different themes to choose from.

CNN Week 3

Boeing is making a phone that can self destruct itself. Its a new secure phone for government agencies and defense contractors that will self destruct if its messed with or tampered with. There wont be any smoke or explosions, but the contents of the device will be completely erased. Any attempt to break open the casing of the device would trigger functions that would delete the data and software contain within the device and make the device inoperable, "explained a company filling with the Federal Communication Commission, posted on the FCC's Web site Wednesday. It is expected to be out by this summer.

CNN Week 2

In the article, "Nokia Unveils First Android Phones" by Adrian Covert it explains that the Nokia wants to make a new phone with extra stuff added to the phone. For example, android apps added but much of the OS has been customized to highlight Nokia and Microsoft's own services including Here Maps and the Bing search. Nokia has also included its own apps for things such as email and camera.

CNN Week 1

In the article, Police: Driver, 79, kills 3 in church lot by Marlena Baldacci, there has been a lot of deaths. A lady was backing out of a parking space and killed 3 people. Fours others experienced injuries and are currently being medically treated. The women may face many charges. Always be aware of your surroundings when your driving a collision may cause severe damage.

Week 4 Reflection

Desktop publishing is the production of printed matter by means of a printer linked to a desktop computer, with special software. Desktop publishing lets you map out as graphic layout made for formatting while word processing focuses of text contents, copying and editing of texts. Desktop publishing or commercial printing or electronic distribution including PDF, slide shows, and email news letters.