Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Tech Article 10/28/11

Steve Jobs: A difficult patient


Steve was a very hard patient to deal with as a doctor. He would always go against the doctor to him it was either his way or the  highway. With his new biography "Steve Jobs" it goes behind the scences of how the cancer was spreading in his body from his pancreas to his liver. It eventually went to other bones in the body. One of the biggest suprises to people was that while he was going against the most state of the art medicial care he always went against docters orders. When his pancreatic tumor was descovered in 2003 the doctor said that he was lucky that they found it early do it can be removed before it spreads. The first thing Jobs said was "I really didn't want them to cut my body open". So he looked into some other ways and that helped him for a couple years and then everything started to go down hill little by little. Then he realized that the tumor had spread and there was no cure. In 2005 at the Stanford Commencement speech he told the public that he had surgery and will be fine when he really wasn't. At a CEO meeting on Augest 24 Jobs said he was resigning he said the  cancer had moved to his bones and other body parts.
Steve Jobs: A difficult patient



Thursday, October 20, 2011

Tech Article 10/21/11

Michael Phelps's "Push the Limit"

The 14-time gold mentalists partnered with the publisher 505 games to create the first swimming game for the Xbox 360's kinect system. The game with called "Michael Phelps: Push the Limit". The game will be played without any controllers that with allow players to move there bodies to replicate swimming styles. It will allow people to travel around the world to participate in swimming competitions. 

 Olympic swimming champ Michael Phelps has a new video game for Xbox 360's Kinect,

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Tech Article 10/14/11

Green Sidewalk Makes Electricity

In London, England they are making paving slabs that makes energy by peoples footsteps into electricity. They are going to be put to help power Europe's largest urban mall, at the 2012 Olympics site. The slabs are made of recycled rubber. These slabs get energy by the footsteps of people, and then it sends tiny burst of electricity to nearby appliances. The slabs can hold energy up for three days in any appliances. When you are charging an appliance an LED light will light expressing the energy transfer. 

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Tech Article 10/6/11

NBA 2K12

This game is in stores now it was put on shelf on October 4. It is available for X-box 360, Wii, Play Station 3, Play Station 2, PSP, and the PC. The review of this game was done on the Play Station 3. This years version will let you play will 15 greatest classic team and players to let you battle on the court. It will alow you to be able to create yourself as a player and you will be able to guide his career through the NBA. Its the top-rated  basketball video game that 2K made.



There may not be a new NBA season, but you can make NBA legends Magic Johnson and Larry Bird face off in