Internet Innovation

Internet Innovations

• The internet innovation I chose to write about is VoIP (voice over internet protocol), or more specifically, Skype. Skype is a web application that allows you to make free calls to anywhere around the world, and with many features that would usually charge such as caller ID, call waiting, and conference calling all built in.
• Skype and VoIP impacts millions of people all around the world. Anyone who has access to a phone or computer and internet can acquire this excellent application.
• The problems solved by VoIP is long distance communication at a low/free cost. Using VoIP apps such as Skype allows users to be able to access all the features of of a regular phone at a  free cost.
• I think this innovation is amazing and I am definitely grateful for it. 

Computer Science Innovations prt8

Computer Science Innovations prt8

• The innovation I decided to talk about is a new charm bracelet that teaches girls how to code. Jewelbots are small woven bracelets with plastic flower charms that contain LED lights and a bluetooth inside. The user can download a phone app that syncs with the bracelet and set when and what color the bracelet lights up as well as when to vibrate. By using rudimentary code, the wearer can program the bracelet to react up to anything.
• This bracelet will impact anyone who chooses to wear it, but the main demographic is young girls.
• By young girls using the bracelet and learning the foundations of coding, this will usher in a new era of women who know how to and enjoy coding.
• I think this is a neat innovation that will definitely impact some people's lives. I wish that I had this technology as a child so that I could have understood coding easier and at a young age. 

Ben Carson

Ben Carson

• Carson was the director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at John Hopkins Hospital in Maryland from 1984 until his retirement in 2013. Carson has achieved many great things such as the first and only successful surgery on Siamese twins joined at the back of the head,  pioneering the first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the womb, performing the first completely successful separation of type-2 vertical craniopagus twins, developing new methods to treat brain-stem tumors and reviving hemispherectomy techniques for controlling. He also ran for president for this election but decided that he didn't see "not see a political path forward".
• His excellence was achieved through vast studying and practice. Carson has graduated from Yale University and the University of Michigan Medical School, and has written multiple books.
• Technology has impacted Carson through many ways. For one, as a surgeon you need specific tools to use, and, without those tools being made and manufactured by machines, he wouldn't be able to perform. Also, Carson owes some of his fame to technology; without his books and his movie that both require technology to be made and distributed, he wouldn't have been so famous.

Reflection: I think that Carson is an excellent example of an "Arete Excellence". Even though his recent political views and recent comments towards the current republican nominee, Trump, are less than admirable, his excellence and skill are certainly admirable and astonishing.

Computer Science Innovations prt7

Computer Science Innovations

• The innovation I chose to write about today is new shape shifting materials that would allow for implants to morph over controlled periods of time.
• This innovation can impact those are in need of implants.
• the problems this innovation would solve is the issue of invasive treatment. With these new shape shifting materials procedures for implants would be noninvasive and much easier to perform.
• I think this innovation is a nifty one because its purpose is to make surgeries and treatment easier on patients and the doctors performing the task. Also, this innovation would be able to revolutionize the art world by creating such things like statues that move with ease.

Computer Science Innovations prt6

• The innovation I chose to write about was a new sleek and convenient design to the inhaler called the "Bloom" design. It resembles a credit card and fits in the palm of your hand.
• This design will impact anyone with asthma, wether it be long term or short term.
• The problems that this design will resolve is the issue that having such a bulky design for an inhaler would make it inconvenient to carry it around, but with the new design people will be more inclined to carry it with them and possible save their own life one day.
• I think this is a neat innovation. As someone who has asthma, I can relate to how it is inconvenient to carry around my inhaler when it is so bulky, but with a sleeker design I would be more inclined to bring it with me at all times.

The Internet Giveaway

The Internet GIveaway

After researching "The Internet Giveaway" I still do not understand exactly what it means but judging from the user comments on different articles, conservatives hate it. Apparetnly, judging from the conservative's comments, I see that the reason they don't like it is because they don't want the internet to be "controlled" by Russians and Muslims. Apparently, the Internet Giveaway already happened on October 1st so I suppose theres no reason to complain or get too worked up about it because it already happened. I think, but I am not sure, that the internet giveaway is going to make it so that other nations have more control over the internet than just only America having full control.