Week 4: Input and Output

          
              Input devices and Output devices affect our everyday lives, and I’m hoping to learn from these devises to make my Smart Coffee cup the best piece of technology it could be. My idea is to create a Coffee cup that could cool itself and reheat itself so I can't really add features like a camera on it because I won't be necessary. One thing I can add to my Smart Coffee cup is voice recognition; this feature can help the user feel safe about hit cup. The way it would be used is that the user can set a voice password that would allow him to open the coffee cup, but it effective because only he could do it so the coffee cup can only recognize his voice.

             My coffee cup could be an input device if I decide to have a feature that could connect it to a computer and the options the user would have are to; manage the battery life, see if there is anything wrong with the coffee cup and probably more.  My coffee cup could also be output devices, by connecting a device like a phone to it you can have for example a hologram version of the phone screen and the user can interact with the hologram. These ideas are minor because they are not necessary for my coffee cup but they could be add-ons or extra feature to appeal to a wider variety of consumers.

           I wanted incorporate the RFID technology to my coffee cup, but after thinking about i decided not to add it. The disadvantage of that technology turned me off, because it is not completely secure and it has a bad public perception I’m thinking it would hurt the sales of my coffee cup. Instead I was amazed by Google new technology called near field communication of (NFC). The first time I heard about this was when Google came out with a phone called the Nexus S, and it was NFC enabled. Back then the only feature that it could do was to read information from smart tags. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk5mUdeEF8c
 Now the technology has evolved and it could do more so hopefully I can incorporate the NFC technology to my Smart Coffee Cup and make it even better.

Week 3: Smart Coffee cup

                  To make my Smart Coffee cup i will need to have a powerful computer and i will need to know the part of the computer to make sure they can be helpful in creating my project. I will need a good case unit to contain the electronic component of the computer, I will need to pick a good motherboard and CPU for my computer. I need to know what kind of processor i will need, so know about gigahertz is very important if i want a fast and efficient computer.

                 Knowing about which kind of heat sink i will need is very helpful because i do not want my computer to overheat. Memory is another important variable i need to take into consideration, I need to know how much memory will be needed to support my project whether its Kilobytes or terabytes. Learning about RAM and Cache would prove very useful, i will know about Memory cache and how they speed the processes of the computer.

              Building a computer for my project will prove to be very challenging and i need to be informed about expansion slots and adapter cards. Peripheral, sound cards, video cards, and memory cards are few things that would be necessary for my computer. Other things i will need to know are the ports in my computer because their is nothing worst than building a computer and messing up the connection. Being able to recognize port types and USB ports will help me very much. The information i learned would not only be useful in building my computer but they will also come in handy when i will start building the Smart Coffee cup, which will probably have similar steps because it will be like a mini computer in the coffee cup.

Igor Mouity

Smart Coffee Cup week 2

                For my Smart coffee cup i will use different way to keep my idea from other so no one else can know about it. Nowadays social networks have low privacy settings, so I have to be very careful if i want some people to know about it. Facebook comes up with a new privacy setting like every two, and because the settings are so weak i will not be having any information relating to my project on Facebook.

              To be more cautious i will examine the settings of all social websites if i want to put up some information about my idea. It is smart to assume that nothing is private on the web so i will act accordingly when sharing information. I will use Google and other search engines to monitor my project, it can help me make sure that leaked information or photos of my ideas are not spread on the web.

                I will use Microsoft Exell, this software can help me create spreadsheets which can help me organize data in rows and columns and perform calculation on the data. It is very help because it has a lot of options, one of them is calculations. In Microsoft Exell there is a function called formula, this performs calculations on the data in the worksheet and display the resulting value in a cell, usually the cell containing the formula. Their is many other software that i can use that are custom made to help me design my project like Web page authoring software which can help me create web pages relating to my idea. Computers have come very far and thanks to new software that are made everyday to help people with their daily needs anybody can do anything if they have the right training and software on what they want to accomplish.

Igor M

Week 1: Smart Coffee cup

      Living in Syracuse is hell. We go through all possible weather conditions and it is plain annoying. My idea is to have a smart coffee cup or an S-cup. This invention can be very beneficial to people who love coffee and do not want cold coffee. Imagine having a coffee cup that can stay the same temperature no matter what weather conditions you are in. An amazing thing about the S-cup is that it can actually cool down your coffee to the temperature you want, so you don't have to wait for your coffee to cool before drinking it. The smart coffee cup can do it for you.
      The winter in Syracuse is deadly, so I think having a coffee cup that can reheat the coffee or keep it at the same hot temperature when you are going through your everyday business is amazing. Winter is not the only season that the smart coffee cup can be used. Nowadays people buy iced coffee and the heat in Syracuse in the summer is also a problem. The S-cup can keep your iced coffee cold even when you leave it in your car and close all the windows. Thanks to this brand new invention, people from around the world can have the luxury of enjoying their coffee at whatever temperature they like and not worry about weather conditions.
       This cup would be much like a thermos, but it would have three layers separating external elements from the coffee. The first layer is a sensory layer, which recognizes when coffee is put into the cup. The second layer is the layer responsible for the cooling and heating of the coffee. This layer is split between the coils that cool and warming plates where one side of the cup has the coils that extract heat from the coffee to keep it cool, and the other half has the coils that keep the coffee consistently warm or add greater heat. The third layer protects the user from any harm that could come from the cooling and warming process of the coils.