9-27-10 class

Today's class was mostly chaos. A mouse was involved along with many loud noises and mind testing. Many rabbit trails were gone on and straying from the topic at hand happened every 5 seconds. But it's fun, I have to admit. The class ended on a dark note when we listened to the scary noises on youtube. I think that was the only thing that gave me a little sense of fear the whole class time. I hate watching scary movies  mostly because I fear being scared I guess. Those sounds reminded me of something from a scary movie and since it was supposedly real life it made me cringe a bit.

My Hypothesized Outcome

I think when I do my experiment people will get really nervous and then jump. Some people might not do anything at all depending on if my subject is something people are afraid of.

9-20-10 class

I was so relieved when Beth said "go home now" right at about 4:30. Not that I don't enjoy the class, because I really do enjoy it. At that moment I just really wanted to go home and my wish was suddenly granted. It was really cool I thought to have a wish granted. That doesn't normally happen alot.
The class time itself was mostly on the topic of fear. I always have a little bit of fear whenever I have to present my ideas or projects in front of others. Its ironic that I'm going to have a slight fear about presenting my project on fear in front of the class. I don't know if it's a real fear of mine cause it mostly just translates into nervousness which is one of the most uncomfortable states for me to be in.

The ferret was cute.

Our Digital Sense

If I had another sense I would want it to be a digital sense. This type of sense would be able to receive and interact with digital signals from a device similar to how an antenna receives television signals. In fact, if we had this sense we would be able to receive television signals. We wouldn't necessarily see or hear the the signal, our minds would just perceive or interpret it. We could still hear and see the result of the digital signal we just wouldn't be using our eyes or ears to do that. It would be very similar to dreaming except we could control it. This would revolutionize the way we interacted with computers or anything digital.
The device I would create would be a car that you could drive with your mind. The car would have a computer inside of it that would be connected to all of the car's basic controls. Since computers are digital devices and we can give and receive digital signals with our new digital sense, we could virtually drive the car with our minds. This free's up the need for a steering wheel, pedals or drive sticks. It would be a very pleasant and relaxing way to drive if you didn't have to physically control anything. Have you ever needed both of your hands to do something else besides controlling the steering wheel while you were driving? Well, with this new digital sense that luxury would be yours.

Inspiration Blog

Friday I was at the Apple store, in the fashion mall, looking around just for fun. As I was leaving it dawned on me that a completely virtual store inside of the mall would be just about as cool as the Apple store and maybe even cooler. It would work the same way as it did in the AVL building. But this time you could actually virtually "pick up" any thing you saw and buy it. I'm not sure how they would get you the physical item that you bought but the experience would be really fun.

Later that day I tried walking backwards. After about thirty seconds it got very difficult. It was even harder to run backwards and probably dangerous. I believe with practice I could get better at it.