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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px} A new form of technology has found its way to Ball State this summer. Google Glass, a new product released by Google, is being used by two staff members and a student. Glass is worn like a pair of glasses, but there are no frames or lenses. Instead, there is a small screen and projector over the right eye that projects an image right onto the user’s retina. The user, once activating glass, will see an overlay of the information on top of what they would regularly be seeing. A smart phone acts as a connection for the Glass. Glass connects to a phone through Bluetooth, which is how it is able to access the web. As of now Glass is in a developer’s state, with people in the industry testing the product. The current model is called the “Explorer” and retails for $1,500. “It would be a lot for a consumer to pay,” said Chris Turvey, a developer at Ball State’s iLearn lab. “It will be placed within the $300 to $600 price point.” He does not think this price will be an issue, “This is the most technologically advanced piece of anything I’ve ever been able to hold… People are going to buy it no matter the price,” Turvey said. Josh Lowe, a senior computer science major, works in the Emerging Media Lab. Lowe has had his own Glass system for around a month and a half and is enjoying the personality of the system. “I love how it’s hands free,” he said. “I could be doing something with Glass while I’m talking to someone, or doing something else. I can do things with it and not miss everything around me. I’m not zoned into a screen.” One of the most notable things about Glass is the camera feature. With a simple vocal command Glass will take a picture, or record a video. Both Turvey and Lowe think Glass could change the way that people learn. “You put a student teacher out in the field, they record their own lecture with this and… send the video back to their teacher,” Turvey said. “Think of the money that the university spends just sending out master teachers to just observe student teachers. They can get through two or three students a day on that kind of model. You can get though four to five a day with [the help of Glass].” Turvey said he uses his Glass most of the time during the day, with the exception of when he is working as his desk. “I don’t wear them to the bathroom. I’m still hesitant with that,” he said. It can sometimes cause unwanted attention in public, Lowe said. “If I’m going be sitting down for dinner with someone, or a group of people, I don’t want to have them on,” he said. “I will be at the table and they will be at the center of attention, and not actually hanging out with people. If I was not the only one to have it, it would be different.” The Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, headed by Senator Joe Barton of Texas, recently wrote a letter of concern to Google’s CEO Larry Page expressing some of their concerns about Glass and its effects on privacy. According to the letter, these concerns included protection of non users from being filmed against their knowledge, unwilling data collection from both users and non users, as well as the use of facial recognition software on Glass. Google responded with a statement addressing each of these issues. “As we do for all of our products, we are carefully reviewing the design of Glass for privacy considerations as part of Google’s comprehensive privacy program,” they said in the statement. “If you look back at articles that were written seven, eight years ago when camera phones started coming out, everyone was worried that there would be no privacy… That did not happen at all,” Turvey said. “There are much more elaborate and hidden ways that I record you, other than putting a camera on my face.” Lowe agreed with Turvey. “I think it’s no more intrusive than someone watching you,” he said. Glass does have some built-in precautions against innapropriate use. “It’s required for Google to have the screen on while the camera is on, at all times,” Lowe explained. “It’s really obvious if I’m doing anything with it.”
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px} p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px} “Avatar: The Last Airbender” showed its last episode nearly five years ago but the story was far from over. Nickelodeon, with the help of the show’s creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, have continued this arching story line by releasing a series of comics with the help of Dark Horse Comics. There are two sets of comics so far. One, “The Promise,” came out in three parts over the course of last year. This year another comic, “The Search,” is also being realized in three parts. The second comic, part two, came out July 10 to an eager audience of casual and hardcore fans alike. “The Search” deals with one of the biggest mysteries in the “Avatar” universe: what happened to Zuko’s mom? The story was first going to be part of the original show, but then was pulled at the last moment. A made-for-TV movie was also in the works but it did not reach production (something about “Avatar” movies makes Nick a little nervous). So in place of a movie or the show, we have the comic, which is both good and bad. The good thing about the comics is that we can get more of the characters we love when normally they would have been left behind. The art seems to be getting better each time a new comic comes out. There is a notable difference between “The Promise” and “The Search,” and it is for the better. The facial expressions are better, the colors sharper and the fight scenes are amazing. This is one part of the comic that should disappoint no one. Gene Yang, the writer of the comic series, has taken much criticism from the fandom for his writing in both “The Search” and “The Promise.” However it seems that, much like the art, the story improves each time. Unlike “The Promise Part 2,” this comic is more focused on the plot line. In addition to that the story seems to be going at a nice, consistent pace. As for the content of the story line, opinions diverge. I love the direction that the story is going. I’m aware that many people within the fandom are looking for Yang’s head on a plate, but I think that’s unfounded. The unexpected twists that fans are upset about are the same ones that Konietzko and DiMartino requested and that has been in place long before Yang became involved in the project. As I see it, Yang is not to be blamed at all. The final part of “The Search” is set to come out in October and should finally answer the question that has been on our minds for so long. As far as new comics go, we should expect that announcement July 20 at San Diego Comic-Con. Yang, Dante Basco (voice of Zuko and General Iroh II) and Sifu Kisu (martial arts consultant for the show) as well as others related to the comic will have a form dedicated to the Avatar Universe. We can only wait and see what is going to happen next.
Folk musician Shantel Leitner will be in Muncie this week while on a cross-country tour supporting her new album, “Indigo.” She will be performing at Be Here Now at 8 p.m. Tuesday. This will be the Kansas native’s first time playing in Indiana.
The Muncie Children’s Museum will host a nightlong slumber party for Muncie’s smallest residents on Saturday. Children and their parents will be able to bring their sleeping bags and stay for the night in the museum.
The smell of fresh produce, baked goods and pulled pork fills the air as people of all ages gather at the Minnetrista Farmers Market.