QR Codes

QR codes are matrix bar codes that are readable with smartphones, cameras, scanners, and mobile phones. They look like a combination of black and white blocks. QR stands for quick response. You can generate your own QR code that either consists of text, calls somebody, or a url. By scanning the QR code you are able to then decode whatever it means. It has become a new T-shirt or tattoo idea to get a QR code printed or tattooed on.

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Portable Projector connected to the Internet Invention

The most amazing invention has been created. This portable projector type invention consists of store bought items at around 300 dollars. It includes a camera, a battery powered projector, and a mirror on a strip that is fastened around your neck. With different colored marker caps on your fingers you are able to use your own hands to control the projection. The device is connected to the internet from a phone. This device can recogonize the different colors on your fingers and projects whatever you are trying to do at the moment. For example, you can put your fingers in the very familiar frame of a picture and the invention knows this action and takes a picture of the scene in front of you. You can project wherever you have a flat surface. It also can gove you a review of a book from seeing the title page of it. Another neat aspect is you can draw a circle on your wrist and watch is projected with the correct time on it. This invention is still very much a working progress and all of the kinks have not yet been worked out.

The Cloud

The Cloud is a fairly recent addition to Microsoft. It is also referred to as Windows Live Skydrive, and it allows you to use the internet as a place to store and backup your files. You can add music, documents, pictures, and even video to your account on the cloud. YOu are allowed 25 GB for free to store your items. And the magical thing about it is you can access it from anywhere. All you need is the internet. You can save your English paper on your home computer and then get to school and pull it up on your laptop. You can also share with other people, sharing videos and pictures with family or a project with classmates.
The Cloud Commercial from Youtube

Bookmarks in Google Chrome

When using Google Chrome you have the option of having a bookmarks bar that conatins all your bookmarks and also and option to place other bookmarks in more specific folders in "other bookmarks." I find this ability to be quite wonderful becuase I am able to have easy access to my most visited websites as well as websites that I would like to save for later. But unfortunately I had my computer reimaged, so I lost all of my fantastic bookmarks when my computer was returned to me. When I opened up Google Chrome again however it gave me an option to save my bookmarks with my google account. "WHAT?" I asked myself. That's right. I could save my bookmarks, so I did. Now whenever I might lose my settings in Google Chrome again I will be able to retrieve all the websites I had saved previously. I am very much appreciative of the new aspect in Google Chrome.

Dan Phillips: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff

Dan Phillips has an ingenious way to reinvent old materials to build houses in an innovative and unorthodox way. For example he has used chicken eggs for a design on teh outside of a house by draining them and filling them with some sort of substance to keep them from rotting. He has also created stairs and a porch railing from old branches, a bathtub faucet from an old beer spicket, and a screen door as a sunroof/window type thing. He has a few different views as to how people today waste things. One: they have an idea in their heads as to what it SHOULD be and how it must be PERFECT. But Phillips concludes that repetition creates a pattern, therefore he repeats an odd architectural design, well then people will accept it as normal because its a pattern. Another view is if it is not perfect people will simply throw it away and not try to create something out of it. Phillips' creations make an ideal way to recycle old things in new ways.

Hillel Cooperman: Legos for grownups

Legos are a very popular childrens toy used by a countless number of kids.......and adults. As you grow out of child things, you forget about legos. BUT some adults have realized the amazing potential of legos. People have built absolutely stunning architectuarl scupltures out of legoes that far exceed the idea of a children's play thing. There are even conventions for people who have built works of art out of their legos. Also you are able to go online and CREATE your own lego design. As in you create some building you enjoy, a spaceship, a castle, whatever, and then you can just click this little button and you can buy the legos needed to make your own creation. And if your idea was amazing it can be turned into a product of legos and be sold in the stores as your own design.
Legos aren't just children's toys
http://www.ted.com/talks/hillel_cooperman_legos_for_grownups.html

Andrew Bird's one-man orchestra of the imagination

Andrew Bird is an EXTREMELY creative individual who writes and plays music. As the title of this post suggests he plays everything  that he has written by himself. His songs consist of various vocals, violin, and the xylophone. He uses a series of different electrical looping to play the song. Bird could start by playing the violin and then begin to play the xylophone, but because of his ingenious electrical looping the violin is still being played through the speakers.