SixthSense Technology

This weel we have been assigned to watch 2 videos on this emerging technology called the SixthSense.  It is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.  I think this is a really cool idea which almost seems that it at once upon a time was impossible.  I have always thought of ideas like I wish we could just have a mobile phone somehow attached in our brains rather than having a separate object that we connect to people through.  even though its a thought there would be no way I would be able to even start thinking about doing this.  Well, the creator of SixthSense seems to have found ways of doing this.

It is said that Sixth Sense technology will "help us to stay human."  He continues, "to stay more connected to our physical world."

And that it will "help us avoid being machines sitting in front of other machines."

I think that we are definitely human that have already turned into a digital world and it could never go back.  I think that it is beneficial that we a re turning towards a digital word because it is what keeps us in touch with people that arn't within reach.  If there is a way of connecting the two I think that we will enter a whole new arena of possibilities in which we can achieve as humans.  I don't think that is a bad thing, although I think it is still important to keep in touch with the physical world, we couldn't live without the digital world.

I am excited to see how this SixthSense technology progresses and to see how it would fit into society and day to day life.

Online Website Builders

One of our class progects was to make a group website.  There are many sites out there that you could use to make your website and it basically comes down to personal choice.  Some of the website builders we used was weeblys.com and wix.com.  I had used weeblys in the past and thought before we even approached the site that this is what I would want to use.  After experimenting a little bit with wix, I realized that I wanted to go with that.  The reason why I did this was becasue It felt alot more user friendly and had a really nice finishing touch to it.  To me the site looked visually appealing and also and had a lot of cool tools that you could use to make your site.  Our group website is called "Get your Drip" and we designed it with wix.  It a website that showcases places to go to get coffee in different neighborhoods in Bellingham, WA.  We all decided as a group that we should use wix so there wasn't too much of a problem with that decision.  We were all able to work on the site from seperate locations and each page jived with the rest of the site. 

Here are some useful links to use when deciding to use an online website builder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3KnDMPclhQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciz-UQuzuco

All in all I think there are many great sources that one could use for bulding a website online and you could always watch a tutorial on each one or even go to the ite and playa round with it before jumping into the first website builder you know of.