Stat Planet

Stat Planet is a great website to use if you want to see different statistics from all around the world. There are a lot of things and topics that you can see and look at. It is a great website that contains a lot of information that is very useful.  

Bomomo

Bomomo is a great tool for creating wonderful masterpieces of art in a very creative way. If you ever feel like you need to quickly draw something in an easy way than Bomomo is a great one to use. Next time I want to make something that looks visually cool,  I know where to go.

Piktochart

Piktochart is a great website for making a quick graphic to easily display information in a fast and easy way. It doesn't take long and there is a lot of variety in creating your own info-graphic. The finished product is a clean and professional looking graphic that you can show to everyone. Overall my first experience with Pixtochart was a good one.

Journal

This year in Emerging Technologies I have learned about a plethora of things like stop-motion, however, the best thing I have learned would have to be the new photo editing websites that I have used. I would like to learn more web 2.0 tools that will help me in everyday things.

Pixton

Pixton is a great website to use when you want to make your own comic strip. It is a fast and easy process that gives you access to hundreds of different props, characters, and backgrounds. If you want a fast and efficient way to make a comic strip than Pixton is the way to go.

QR Codes

QR Stuff is a great website to quickly create a QR code that you can use instantly. QR codes are becoming something extremely popular in the world today. If I were you I would jump at this opportunity to make your own.

New Emerging Technology

Imagine a world where you never have to worry about your phone dying or any portable device that you own running out of a battery. Well we are coming into an age of technology where we are close to a wireless way of transferring power. There is something called Qi where you use two coils a transmitter and a receiver. What this does is generate a magnetic field to where the device and the wireless generator can transfer voltage. This idea is not far away from being accomplished, the idea was initially proposed by Nikola Tesla and it was the turn of the century. We are slowly entering a world where the impossible is now possible. The Oak RidgeNational Laboratory has shown how it can be done and close we are to making it available to everyone in the world.

There are many strengths to having this technology such as the ability to not have to plug in when charging and not have to wait until its 100% so you don’t overcharge the battery. You will always be with your phone while charging so it can always be monitored. Also there could potentially be the ability to eliminate the use of outlets as a power source. We could have everything be wirelessly charged from T.V’s to blenders or really anything that has a power source we could make camping completely different to the way it is right now. As there are strengths there are also weaknesses like how much battery you have to charge and how long it will take to get to 100%. There is also the weakness of other people trying to take control of your device and having a issue of privacy. There will be many opportunities like I said before about eliminating outlets and non-electrical camping. There are also many threats. The same technology could be used to make a tethered connection with phones that aren't yours and do things that aren't just charging but roaming on other people’s phones and looking at what they are doing live.