Blog Week 9

Nintendo’s New Sleep Tracker

                Nintendo already having a monstrous gaming company they are attempting to break out from their roots and enter into the world of the health. They are currently in development of their “QOL sensor” which monitors the sleep habits of its users. The owner of Nintendo buy into the fact that the amount of sleep that a person get is directly connected to one’s health, which is why they have decided to move forward with this project.

                The QOL senor, set to be released in the year 2016, is a device that track that fatigue levels and the amount of sleep the user gets each night. Nintendo is developing it to not hassle the lives of the users by making it automatically track the sleep cycle without having to press a button or a having to wear something when they are sleeping. Once the device is done tracking the data it is sent to Nintendo’s cloud where is analyzed by the workers at Nintendo and the information is sent back to the user via smartphone app, gaming system, or other device. The analyzed information is connected with advice of the users could help improve their sleep habits such as increase excise or changing their diet.

                This new sleep monitoring device is one of the many ways that technology is being pushed towards a self-health awareness.

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/nintendo-sleep-qol-health/

Blog Week 8

Goggle’s Inbox

                Do you ever open up your email account and just think, “I wish this could be more organized!”  Well with Google’s new Inbox app, unorganized email can soon become a thing of the past for Gmail and other Google associated app users. The Inbox app collects information from email received and Google+ post that allow you to neatly organize them into specific categories and for a smoother course of action when trying to sort through your email.

                Upon receiving emails, Google Inbox will suggest possible premade categories to classify the information into such as travel, social, work, etc. Inbox also allows the user to create their own categories for emails.  If an email is considered to be important by the use they can use a pinning device within the app to make sure ether item is not deleted when the it comes time to clean house. If an event is recognized inside an email, it gives the users the an opportunity to create reminds so they can remember the event.

                With Google’s new push to a new design for better organization within an email inbox, it will create a trend for other company to design a better layout for their emails and the email layout standard you know will soon become obsolete.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzNTjpUMOp4

Blog week 7

The Hacks on Social Media

                After the recent attacks on both SnapSaved, a site the saves Snapchats, and drop box; it is a priority for the owners of their companies to step up the security and take all the measures that the can in order to prevent an event like this from happening in the future.

                Nearly seven million account of Dropbox were breached by the hack with 100 of them being published. The hackers are threatening to release all the information stolen if they are not paid a bitcoin reward. The SnapSaved breach lost around 500mb of photos and videos that had been saved to the site. SnapSaved stated that most of the users that were hack were Swedish, Norwegian, and American.               

Though the hackers got into to the information by guessing passwords, not hacking into the overall system, there should have been preventive measures taken by the companies to insure that their client’s information was secure. For instance, they should have should a security system that tracks IP address to check how many times a user has logged into their account from a certain IP address. Along with the IP track, they should have used biometric measures in order to understand how user use the site and to realize changes in activity.

With the increasing amount of social media in use today there was will be an equaling growing amount of hackers trying to get into the information on social media. The only thing that these social media can do to protect use is constantly increase the security that they use for their sites.

http://www.cio.com/article/2834192/data-breach/snapchat-and-other-online-services-need-to-tighten-security.html

Blog Week 6

John Deere WorkSite

                The development of the John Deere’s new WorkSite system it is creating new and unique ways of optimizing the performance at a jobsite that involves the uses of John Deere manufactured heavy equipment. The Worksite program is to work the JDlink (John Deere link) telematics to connect with all the equipment you are using over your worksites; this will allow a direct link to either your phone or computer

                There are many ways that this program making a jobsite more optimal in many ways. One of the ways being that it track the people using the machines to make sure they aren’t letting the engine idle for too long and it can also set up virtual geo-fences in order to ensure the a piece of equipment has not moved to far out of its zone.  It also monitors things that can allow for better operating training, like the amount of time the equipment has spent in one gear.

                Aside from the human aspect, it also monitors the equipment itself to make sure it is being properly used and take care of.  It calculates the fuel the equipment has spent so they can make sure that it never runs of fuel. It also has load monitoring data that makes sure you have the right piece of equipment for the workload.

                This system will drastically improve the way jobsite managers using John Deere’s will keep track of everything that goes on in the worksite and will allow for greater optimization of every part of the worksite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evLNuS1JjSM&list=UUxeAYuhwAPAsSP7Gtfeml0g&index=11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb2DwsSLmmE&index=13&list=UUxeAYuhwAPAsSP7Gtfeml0g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek_7IO_f3lg&index=10&list=UUxeAYuhwAPAsSP7Gtfeml0g

Blog week 4

Social Media Marketing for the Holidays

                With the hustle and bustle of holidays soon approaching, many companies are trying new ideas on how to get their products inside the mind of the consumers. Consumers are projected to spend a grand total of $650 billion dollars through the course of the season. This is no wonder why nearly 70% of the brands in the US are using a form of social media marketing campaign.

                With 67% of companies stating that they will be investing more money into social media marketing there will be a huge amount of money spent on social media marketing in the holiday months. Facebook is the biggest target for these brands with a 92% of the social media based marketing going towards it, as opposed to twitter or other websites that are both only at 4%. Though Facebook is the largest there a trends towards reaching out to newer untested sites for marketing like Snapchat, Swarm and Instagram, with Instagram predicted to be the biggest marketing breakout of the 2014 holiday season.

                With there being a massive amount of users on social media websites and a growing trend there is no doubt that the future of marketing during the holidays lies in the realm of social media and will only continue to grow stronger.

http://www.inc.com/graham-winfrey/the-social-media-trends-marketers-must-follow-this-holiday-season.html

Blog week 3

IS that will add the Gluten intolerant and Celiacs

With all the people in today’s world that are becoming more and more aware of their celiac disease or intolerance of gluten, myself included, making a device that is able to scan food to detect the ingredients inside would be very helpful. With the new start-up called 6SensorLabs a device like that is something that could be made available to the public fairly soon.

A product like this would shine light on to the problems that affect many people that are affected by glutenous foods. They would no longer have to play the guessing game when it comes to food that is prepared at restaurants. A simple scan would allow the user to identify all the ingredients inside the food and able to assess whether or not the food is safe to eat.

M.I.T graduates, Shireen Yates and Scott Sundvor, founded the company. They say that their product will be fast and reliable; it will even be for purchase at $150, which is about half the price of their biggest competitor the Tellspec food scanner. They also hope to create scanners that are able to detect other types of allergens in foods.

The start-up has already compiled 4 million dollars from outside investor and is predicted to release their gluten scanner to the public early next year.

http://ovens.reviewed.com/news/new-gluten-sensor-will-sniff-out-hidden-flour?utm_source=usat&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=collab

Blog week 2

Self-driving cars the problems faced in development

                The thought of self-driving car is a very interesting advancement in technology that may be seen on roads in the near future but there are many challenges that are faced by companies that are developing this kind of technology. Many of the problems faced are with the information systems that are used in to make the car function properly. Some of these systems range from manageable problems like detecting glare from snow on the road or accounting for misbehaving children inside the car, to much harder to fix problems such as system design failures.

 One of the greatest problems faced when developing this technology not being able to justify whether or not the completely self-driving car system is safe without the existing software designed to work with the car. The developers also stated that designing a fully automated car is much harder than the already existing technology of automated flight because of the fact they have to develop an information that is designed to interact with the mass amount of cars and traffic on the road.  As well as an information system that is used to make the correct responses in time of an emergency.

With these problems that the developers are facing in the creation of a self-driving car it may be years until they are made available for the public to buy.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/future-of-self-driving-cars-detroit-panel