Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Question 8

A magazine competition invited people to come up with "invented" inventions of the cyber-age.
For example, a solar powered clothes drier (a rope) and a hand-held word processor (a pencil). Can you guess what this is?


It is a portable arcade. A hand-held amusement resource with no cartridges or batteries. Access games of speed, dexterity, memory, cunning. Produce magical effects or construct lofty towers. Some games can increase your income.

Answer 7

No water could stay in it because since it was on all the water would drain out of the coffee filter and it would go in the pot.

Evi to Siri

Siri a voice-recognition capabilities on your phone just became a possibility to Android and iPhone users. Evi is a $.99 app for iPhones and it totally free for Android users. Evi is a less expense version of Siri.
Siri can schedule meetings on your phone and dictate text messages, while Evi can not. Evi is quiet helpful at finding restaurants, local shops, and general information. Evi is slower than Siri and is not synced to other apps like Siri but it looks like in the future True Knowledge, the company behind Evi, might upgrade it to do some of this.
Evi voice is said to be similar to Siri. Some even say it annoying. Sometimes it says there no response from the severs, but then, your answer appears.
Siri is use by many to schedule appointments and calls. But also many like it for its depth of knowledge and wit Siri contains. Kate Freeman said, “Ask Siri to tell me about the Civil War and it directs me to a related link.” While ask Evi and you get a limited response that includes the data and a small picture.
Siri has built-in cleverness, and so, to find out if Evi has built-in cleverness. Freeman ask Evi, “What’s my name?” It responded with, “Who are you? Surely you know the answer.”

Clownfish and Damselfish

A group of scientist did an experiment on clownfish and damselfish larva and found out the acidification in the ocean environment can cause behavioral changes in fish. They got clownfish and observer them to see what they would do. The ones with low CO2 avoided the scent of the predator but the ones with high CO2 was oblivious of the scent. Which as you know would cause a higher rate of death in the fish. The damselfish were put in a maze. The ones with low CO2 would constantly turn one way right or left while the damselfish with high CO2 level would turn at random with no reasoning. The fish with a intermediate CO2 levels did show some slight changes that show the fish could probably change over time.