Voki

Voki is a Web 2.0 tool where you can create these video things where you can say anything
you want. You can change the character from a variety of different categories. You can tell your
character what to say by phone, text, and other options also. You can also change the background
of your Voki from a variety of different categories.

QR Code

QRStuff is a website where you can create a QR Code with the click of a button. You just pick the data type, pick the color, and pick the output type. You can receive information instantly by scanning a QR Code. I think QR Codes are really good marketing tools and everyone likes finding faster ways to get access to information.

Emerging Technology Research

            An airless tire is a new emerging technology where the tire is not supported by air pressure. Another name for the airless tire is a non-pneumatic tire. They are being used on smaller vehicles like lawn mowers and golf carts. Another piece of equipment that they are used on is backhoes, which are used on construction sites with higher chances of tires going flat. The airless tires are made up of closed-cell polyurethane. The main concept of the airless tire is that they don’t go flat. Michelin is in the process of developing a combination of a wheel and tire called the “Tweel”, which is airless. Michelin has said that the “Tweel” has load carrying, shock absorbing, and handling abilities that are a solid comparison to pneumatic tires. Bridgestone is also in the process of developing an Air-Free Concept Tyre, which is similar to Michelins “Tweel”. The “Tweel” is composed of conventional tire rubber with molded tread, a shear beam, series of polyurethane spokes, and an integral inner rim structure. The “Tweel’ is not made up of compressed air. This is good because it prevents potential leaks in pressure, bursting, and the tire becoming flat. Michelins “Tweel” has many strengths to it, but it also has some weaknesses to it also. A strength of the “Tweel” is its safety and obviously never getting any flat tires. The “Tweel” could eventually have the ability to break through a significant performance compromise that is inherent to pneumatic tires. It could also potentially reduce hydroplaning because the tread patterns can incorporate water evacuation through holes in the design. A weakness of it is the noise and high speed vibration. An opportunity for the “Tweel” could be getting rid of compressed air tires entirely and just using the airless ones. A potential threat to this product is durability and how long the airless tires can last before eventually not being able to go no more.

Sources: Wikipedia

Time Toast

Time Toast is a Web 2.0 tool where you can create timelines about any topics that you want. You can add photos next to your events on your timeline so you can give people a visual of the event that happened. Adding specific dates is very important when you create a timeline so people know when the events happened.

Photoshop

Photoshop is a program by Adobe where you can edit any photo that you want. Photoshop has a lot of cool tools like new adjustment layers, cropping, and a lot other interesting tools also. My favorite feature about Photoshop is putting all of the different new adjustment layers on the photos. You can really enhance the quality of a photo by editing it in Photoshop. Overall, I think Photoshop is a pretty fun program to use.

ESPN

ESPN is a Web 2.0 tool that brings you all of the latest news going on in the sports world. It has live feeds on the website so you can instantaneously get new information on whats happening in the sports world. It has a scoreboard at the top of the website so you can easily know the scores of the games that are going on live. They also have a section about top stories so you can see what the most talked about stories in sports are at that moment in time.

Photo Editing

1.PicMonkey-I really liked using Pic Monkey to edit my photos. I thought it was really easy to navigate around while editing a photo. Pic Monkey was my favorite photo editing website that I used.

2. iPiccy-I thought iPiccy was a pretty solid photo editing website. I liked all the different effects you could put on the photos. The website wasn't too complicated and it was pretty simple.

3. BeFunky-I thought BeFunky was a cool photo editing website. I couldn't believe all of the stuff you could do to edit your photo. I also liked all of the effects you could choose from like I did on iPiccy.

4. Pixlr- I thought that Pixlr was a good photo editing website. I really liked the layout of Pixlr and how easy it was to edit my photos. I liked how it had drop down menus at the top of the page so you could easily get to where you wanted to go.

5. Fotoflexer-I didn't really like Fotoflexer as much as I did the other photo editing websites. The layout of the website was just not working for me. I overall just didn't really like the website that much at all.

6. Picadilo-I thought Picadilo was a pretty solid photo editing website. I liked all of the different effects you could choose from like I did on a lot of the other photo editing websites. I also liked the different borders and things like that you could choose from.