Kids' newspaper app

Here is a smart phone app that allows you to translate adult language into children’s language. By placing your phone on top of what you want to read, it translates it and makes it more understandable for children.

There are a few problems with this app and that is that as a child myself, if I did not know something I would ask my parents, therefore we would engage in a conversation, but if you knew everything because of the app you wouldn’t talk to your parents. Also, if you keep on using the app you might not understand a newspaper without it.

Why do we split the languages into two? (Adult and children). Why can’t we have one? Or why can’t the newspaper be made for children so that everyone can understand it? Another good idea would be to make an app that translates a language into another in the same way.

Google Glasses

 
Here is something I have found interesting in a YouTube clip.  They are the Google Glasses. These glasses allow you to do everything that you can do on your smart phone, but on the glasses. Just by speaking you’re in control of ringing or texting someone. This is useful because if you lose your phone you could use the glasses.

To expand the Google Glasses their next invention could be to make Google contact lenses. So if you do not like wearing glasses you could wear them instead. If you wear glasses temporarily, do you have to take them off? Maybe that could be their next step.
 
There is only one problem with the glasses and that is that you are spending too much time looking at a screen, also that you might not pay attention to people around you. Another good idea is the Google car.

How to create your own 3D image

Scientists have discovered how to make a 3D image with a webcam and sunshine. I recently found out from a magazine called New scientist. It is all down to how sunshine bounces off surfaces at different times of the year.  A scientist called Austin Abrams said “In some cases, we can capture the 3D structure of individual shingles on a rooftop.”                    

Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong, as we all know, was the first man on the moon. Everyone commonly knows him for saying “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”, on 20th July. Armstrong wasn’t as famous since he returned to Earth. Instead of living the life of fame from landing on the moon, he spent the rest of life working quietly to give others a chance of their own. Armstrong had a lifelong interest in flight; he started building and testing modal airplanes in elementary school. He also learnt how to fly a plane at only 16. He flew 78 combat missions during the Korean War as a navy pilot, and logged more than 1000 hours as a test pilot before being a recruit to NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) second group of astronauts in 1962. Sadly Neil Armstrong died on the 25th August 2012 due to a complication from heart surgery. He was 82. Because of his achievements, the White House declared that flags across the country will fly at half-staff on Friday, the day of Armstrong’s funeral in Ohio.

The sun

Over the years scientists have discovered many things, but none like this. This time they have discovered a magnetic field on the surface of the sun. The magnetic field arches loop from the surface of the sun to the corona, which is the upper atmosphere. The loops get hotter with height. We are able to see the loops because bright surface plasma flows along the curves.