Google's New Music Search

Finally, to our final blog! This one is dedicated to our final project: the new technology pitch.

I looked around for a while on gizmag.com, trying to find something that really interested me. I really enjoy finding and experiencing new music, so when Google's new music search popped up, I was hooked.

I know that regular searches allow you to look for music by artist name, song and ablum title. But, what if you're like me and can only recall a few words to a new song I like and want to download? That's where Google's new search comes in!

The search allows you to type in a few words to a song, and it brings up the most relevant info to the lyrics you searched. A video will often pop up,or you'll be directed to a site like Imeem that partnered with Google. On this site, you can then learn more about the song/artist or purchase the song.

Woah! Awesome for someone, like me, who is always searching for new music but can never remember the words

Sippin' Rocks= No More Crunching on Ice Cubes

I know one of the things I enjoy about having a cocktail is chewing on the ice cubes as I sip. However, having those cubes in the glass poses one problem: cocktail dilution. I hesitate paying upwards of $8 for a cocktail that I'm going to sip and have it diluted before I even get halfway through.

A recent invention may be the answer to that: Sippin' Rocks! These 'rocks' are squares made of high quality granite that are frozen a few hours before needed. You simply (yet carefully) put two of the rocks in your cocktail and poof! you have a drink that won't get diluted. (Warning label: no chewing, unless you like visiting your dentist!)

While a neat idea, I think whomever invented these nifty 'rocks' could have thought more about the market... They are handsome 'rocks'- for a guy. I just can't see a woman sipping a cocktail with large granite squares inside.

Who knows, maybe I have to try them to believe in them!

End of Pap Smear Testing? Woah!

If you are female, you know the pain and discomfort of a pap smear test...If you are male, you're pretty lucky to not have to know what a pap smear is like.
An emerging technology (and one that was presented on today in COM 435) may take some of that pain and discomfort away- yay!

Zilico has come out with a portable pap smear device that sends out a mild electrical current that reads how the current flows through cervical cells. This device provides instant feedback instead of the several week long wait of a normal pap smear. Also, the device checks for cervical cancer- a huge plus, because cervical cancer kills thousands of women each year.

This device looks like a space machine, and may be a little overwhelming for a young women abotu to recieve her first pap. However, if this "space machine" can provide instant feedback for women, why not try it?

Raising Children via Wii-mote

In looking around for my new technology for the presenation, I found this new toy for young girls: a Wii Baby! What will they come up with next?

This toy consists of an average looking baby doll, except it isn't. The average baby doll I played with as a child did not have a Wii-mote hooked into its back. This Wii baby has 18 modes of play, and communicates with the child via giggling, gurgling or crying. You can rock it to sleep and even teach it to walk!

Personally, I think the folks at Wii are going a little too far. Young teens are already having babies at alarmingly early ages... Society doesn't need little children wanting kids because they can "take care of" their Wii baby.

http://www.gizmag.com/wii-baby-and-me-nintendo/13400/