Innovations

It’s almost always hot here in California. Thankfully scientist came up with an innovation to help keep us cool without using a fan an air conditioner. Heating and cooling spaces take up 12.3 percent of total energy consumption in the U.S. This new innovation helps keep you cool without having to use any of these energy consuming products. Researchers have engineered a new plastic material that could be used for clothing and will help the wearer cool off. What’s good about this innovation is that is can reduce a lot high energy costing products. This innovation is really eco-friendly and can help a lot in places where it is really hot.

Innovations

Jewlbots

The Jwelbot is a bracelet that can be used to symbolize your friendship with one of your closest friends and also teach you to code. Friendship bracelets have been around for many years and it doesn't seem like they'll go away any time soon. This new bracelet can be worn with up to eight friends. The bracelet will light up when one of the friends is near by and the group can send each other secret messages through lights and vibrations. The Jewlbot can also be paired with a smartphone app. the Jwelbot uses rudimentary coding that allows the girl to do almost anything. It even connects to other networks to extend the kids reach and for those parents who are always concerned about they're child it also allows for the child to send a message if the child is feeling unsafe. This is a great innovation because kids can learn to code from an early age which can be of great use in  the future. 

Ben Carson

Ben Carson is a retired neurosurgeon. He graduated from Yale University and the University of Michigan Medical School. He has wrote many books about his medical career and political stances. From 1984 to 2013 he was  the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at John Hopkins Hospital in Maryland. At age 33 he became the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery and has received more than 60 honorary doctorate degrees. Although he came from a very poor family it is amazing to see the individual he became. and as he says "poverty is a choice." Anyone can become anything, if they work hard for it. Education is the key and everyone has the choice. 

Innovation

Cell phones. Even though they have been around for a while now, cell phones have gone though many changes. From the old just at home telephone to the new new small portable ones. Every year cellphones are just getting faster and faster. Of course that also means they're getting more and more expensive. Just a few weeks ago everyone was talking about the new iPhone 7 that came out. Cell phones have been one of the best innovations because they help people in their everyday life. Although cellphones are great and very useful people do seem to rely on them to much.

Innovation

Kitchen Safe

The kitchen safe is a container that keeps any snack or item that may fit in there for as long as you want. This product started to keep snack out of kids reach for a period of time, but it has now moves on to electronics. I think this is a great innovation because when it comes to food and snacks a lot of us have weak-will. I think with this innovations a person can learn how to be patient and also feel good about themselves for waiting the amount of time. This innovations can teach children how good it feels to get their reward after having waited for it.

Roger Bannister

Roger Bannister is a former middle-distance athlete who ran the first sub-four-minute mile. Everyone around him said that running a four minute mile would be impossible, but this did not stop Bannister. On May 6,1954 he achieved his goal of running the mile in 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds. This shows his Arate attitude and it proves that just because someone says something doesn't mean that it's true. We must never give up on a dream just because someone tells us that it's impossible. We just need to work hard and stay dedicated because if we truly want to achieve something we can make it.

                    

Raindrop Presbyopic Inlay

The raindrop inlay is designed for people between the ages of 41-65. This new innovation is for people who are losing the near sighted vision. As we age our natural eye lens becomes hard and makes it hard for us to focus on anything near us. To implant the device, the doctor will create a flap on the cornea and place the raindrop there. Once he has put the raindrop there he will seal the cornea back up. This innovation is a real improvement, with this new innovation a lot of people will not need glasses anymore. In the near future glasses won't be made anymore all because of this new innovation.

Mikaele Oloa

Mikaele Oloa is a fire-knife master. At the age of 15 he won World Fireknife Champion, making him the youngest competitor to ever win. He began training with his father at the age of 5! That is really amazing, he has been practicing this since he was 5, that really shows a person that he didn't get to be the wold champion by luck. Oloa had worked long and hard for his reward, he has put so much passion and dedication to his work. Seeing how long and hard he's worked it doesn't surprise me that he has been the World Fireknife Champion for 5 years in a row. This Arate person shows that the road to success takes years and even though at times it might seem hard we must never give up. He also shows that if we have a great passion for something we must not hesitate to go for it.

Lock8

The Lock8 is a bike lock to ensure your bike never gets stolen again. The Lock8 uses and app to be unlocked. It will also send a alarm to your phone when it senses any type of burglary. I think is great innovation, is this type of lock can be invented for a bike imagine the other types of locks that can be invented. What I really like about this new lock is that it uses an app and it's connected to our phones which everyone has and uses. 

Nathan Sawaya

 Sawaya is a American-based artist who creates three-dimensional sculptors using the LEGO blocks. He left his job as an attorney to work for the LEGO Company, but whit-in six moths of working there he left and opened his own art studio in New York. His great creations have gone very far and have captured every ones eyes. Even the LEGO Company made him a LEGO Certified Professional, he is also a LEGO Master Builder and is the only person with those two tittles. In my opinion I think it took a lot of courage for him to leave his job as an attorney and become an artist. His work is amazing and it really shows that in order to make something happen you have to just go and take a leap of faith. 

Meccanoid G15 KS

The Meccanoid G15 is the smartest DIY bot to some out from a box. This kit has hundreds of part that a anyone can reassemble into many different forms. This Meccanoid is about four feet tall, has more than 1,200 parts, 8 servos, 2 motors and has a coast of $400. Once the Meccanoid is assembled it can crack jokes, respond to voice command and can be programmed with certain moves. The Meccano’s parts are made from plastic so it will not hurt anyone if it tips over. These fantastic Meccano’s will expand your creativity and get your imagination running. This innovation shows just how much technology is expanding and just how much technology will continue to expand. It's so amazing to see just how scientist can create robots that are becoming more interactive with people.

Blown to Bits Chapter 2

There are half a million cameras in London. The cameras around London are the most effective technology for tracking. Cellphones keep track of who they call and where they call from. Credit card companies know where you sent your money and what you spent your money on as well. Almost nothing in the web is private anymore, the explosive growth of technology has altered what we believe should be private anymore. In the electronic world we leave digital fingerprints such as data trails. There are many websites where you can watch what is happening in that moment! A GPS will locate wherever you are on earth. This can come in handy when getting lost or looking for a criminal. All the technology around so us keeps track of everything that we do, there's no escaping from it. Everything in the digital world is also connected to one another although we may not always see the connection, it is there. Technology has not stolen our privacy, we have given it ourselves. Sites know who we are because we tel them, also the sites keep track of who visits the them and they have our IP Address. Big Brother is always watching us and for those who have nothing to hide, there is nothing wrong with it. Besides this is the what it has come to, we have given up our privacy but to the price that we have the whole world in our hand.

Alex Hattori

2015

•   2nd Place at the World Yo-Yo Contest - 3A
•   1st Place at the US Nationals - 3A 

2014

• 1st Place at the US Nationals 
• 4th Place at the West Coast Yo-Yo Championships 
• 1st Place at the West Coast Yo-Yo Championships 
• 7th Place at the World Yo-Yo Contest 
• 2nd Place at the Duncan International Yo-Yo Championships 
• 1st Place at the California State Yo-Yo Championships 

2013

• 1st Place at the US Nationals 
• 1st Place at the Southwest Regionals 
• 1st Place at the Northeast Regionals 
• 4th Place at the World Yo-yo Contest 
• 2nd Place at Southern California 

2012

• 1st Place at the Bay Area Classic 
• 1st Place at California States
• 1st Place at the Southern California Championships
• 2nd Place at the Southwest Regionals

2011

• 2nd Place at the Us Nationals
• 1st Place at the Southwest Regionals
• 2nd Place at the World Yo-yo Contest 
• 1st Place at the Bay Area Classic 
• Most Inspirational Player - US Nationals

2010

• Junior National Champion - US Nationals

At such a young age Alex Hattori shows us where hard work, determination and a passion for something will get us. Not even an adult yet an he has already earned all of there achievements. You can tell by the number of awards that this young man has work hard and has had many years of practice with the yo-yo. Someone isn't just that good in something you have to practice and practice in order to get that good. You also have to be patient because the road to success is never an easy one. His performance shows just how much practice he has put into the yo-yo. What I can learn from him is that, being good at something takes time and determination. It teaches me that I have to really practice and take my time learning ANYTHING because it may not always be fun doing something hard, but if we just gave up we wouldn't get anywhere. 

Reusable Rockets

At the end of 2015 Space X and Blue Origin showed how to return rockets back into the Earth after being used. This can be very useful for space exploration, and it would save a lot of fuel and save a lot of coast. I think this innovation will be really useful because it will save a lot of money and allow newer and better space exploration to occur. All the new things that can be discovered since scientist would be able to reuse rockets. There would be more rocket launches and maybe even a newer innovation that will come because of the reusable rockets.

Carl & Margret Karcher

Carl Karcher was a businessman who founded the Carl’s Jr. Restaurant chain. He died on January 11, 2008 at the age of 90, his restaurants are now owned by the CKE Restaurants Company. His first business was a hot dog stand, on July 17, 1941, they began by selling hot dogs and Mexican tamales. Then on his 28^th birthday they opened their first restaurant in 1945 called the Carl’s Drive-In Barbecue, in Anaheim. He is a very hardworking man, you can see how hard this man must have worked in order to turn his hot dog stand into the chain of restaurant that it is now. He was the CEO of his company but got voted off because he didn’t agree with the commercial ideas his company wanted to do. He was a Christian who stood by his principles even if it meant losing his company. This shows that he will rather stand alone and keep doing good than stand with other who are doing bad.

“Computing enables innovations in nearly every field.”

Octobot

The “octobot” is new innovations. It is the first robot that is made entirely of soft parts. It is made of silicone rubber and is about 2.5 inches wide and long. What so great about this new robot is that it doesn’t need batteries or wires, it runs on a liquid fuel. The soft parts of the robot make it easier for it adapt to some environments unlike rigid machines. This robot can lead to autonomous robots that will have the ability to sense their surroundings and interact with people! Since conventional robots are made from rigid material the new soft material from the octobot will allow new robots to more past obstacles better and it won’t make them vulnerable to scraps, falls and bumps.  The designs for the octobot were inspired by octopuses, starfish and worms. 

Mia Hamm

Mia Hamm played with the U.S. women’s national soccer team for 17 years. She won the Women’s World Cup in 1991 and 1999. She also won gold medals in the Olympics during 1996 and 2004. She held the record for most international goals scored, but her record was broken by Abby Wambach. Hamm is considered the best female soccer player in history. She has been elected Soccer USA’s “Female Athlete of the Year” five years in a row. Mia Hamm is an amazing person who shows that anyone can make something great of themselves, her hard work and determination really show based on everything she has done over the years. Technology could have helped her in many ways, for example thanks to all the media in the world she was able to become internationally known.

Reflection: Mia Hamm is definitely someone who could be looked up to, she has done amazing things in her life and you could see that she had to work hard to get there. It’s nice to see that she didn’t give up because things got a little rocky; she kept going and was determined to reach her goals. This shows that if you keep your mind on your goals and you work hard on them, they are sure to become a reality. 

Marvin Goldstein

Marvin Goldstein is one of the most traveled pianists and entertainers. He began his musical training when he was nine years old. And got rewarded a scholarship to Tel Aviv University School of Music when he was 18. He has received many awards and has over 30 albums. In order for Goldstein to get to where he is, he had to be a hard working individual. He also had to be persistent and determined because the road to success is never easy. I think with the technology such as cameras and the internet, it was easier for people all around the world to get find out who Goldstein was faster. Back when there was no technology you it took more time for people to find out about a person but with all the technology today and many social medias out there, things can get popular very fast. All you need now is a camera to take a video and then you upload to the web and anybody around the world can see it.