vocab words

1.contretemps: something embarrassing.1. I watched as Shela thought about her most contretemps moment.2.ludic: playful.2. Lucky is a ludic little puppy.3.osculation: the act of kissing.3. An osculation is normal for couples.4. feckless: ineffective, weak.4. Calves are feckless animals when they are born.5.velleity:  slight wish.5. Everyone wishes for one velleity at some point.

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                 Louisiana ‘pick-up-anywhere’ monorail

                               could do away with buses

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Louisiana ‘pick-up-anu where’ monorail could do away with buses

    A team of industrial design students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette put together a railway that wouldn’t need stations to pick up passengers. The system features drive less pods that are mounted to an elevated rail on an arm, which can lower the cabs down to pick up or drop off passengers anywhere along the route.

    The idea actually came from roller coasters, don’t worry about your pod speeding off through a loop though. The team hopes that a system such as their “versatile monorail” would cut down on the need for buses, which with many costs, can be too costly to run efficiently. I think that’s a cool idea, I’ve heard of it in cartoons but there was a problem, but you can’t always believe what happens in cartoons will really happen. It’s a really good idea, but taking away buses also takes away a thousand jobs and in an economic crisis we need a lot of jobs! Don’t you think!

5 vocab words

1.tumult-the commotion or agitation of a crowd.1. The tumult of the crowd is out of hand.2.thaumaturgy-the performing of miracles or magic.2. Jesus’ thaumaturgy is a miracle to all.3.pithy-concise and forceful indescription.3. Her pithy description helped use find the killer.4.veracity-truth, truthfulness.4.Shela’s veracity is a wonderful  thing.5.diatribe-a bitter verbal attach.5.Her diatribe approach clearly suggested that she didn’t really like us.

BMW, the living room with wheels

  The BMW Snug, designed by David Raffai, was created and is what he considers a “social space” with wheels. On the inside this cool car has staggered seating, which gives the car’s interior a more open space. Much like the open feeling you would have in a living room. On the outside of the Snug there are areas on the side and rear that act as seats.

  Along the sides of the vehicle it is designed to have changeable graphics, which is used to customize it and takes advantage of greener technologies, such as hydrogen fuel cells. As you can see this is a really interesting car  and  it seems innovative. People are really going to want to by something like this but with the recession, not right now. I think its amazing, it brings something that can be so far away from home (a car) and brings it together with a living room.

 

5 vocab words

1.libation:the act of pouring a liquid as a sacrifice. 1. Jenny is libation Coke for her brother.2.cormorant: greedy person. 2. Jimmy is a cormorant, mean person. 3.scintilla: a tiny amount. 3. I’ll give you a scintilla of sugar in your cereal.4.esoteric: intended or understood by chosen few. 4. I am only esoteric with my best friends.5.inanition:exhaustion from lack of nourishment. 5. What you’re feeling is inanition, brought by malnutrition.

Cajun Crawler walks all over the Segway

  If you’ve heard of the segway you would know it’s so cool to watch. A person stands on this device and it moves (using wheels). Well the students from the University of Louisiana designed a new version, would it be a winner.

  The cajun crawler uses multiple legs instead of wheels. It’s graceful, and much faster than you would imagine. It’s based on Dutch designer, Theo Jansen’s beach creatures. This dynamic stabilized machine looks so interesting. If it were available  for purchase, I would choose the cajun crawler because the way it moves is so fascinating. It’s like your walking on your own feet and it’s incredibly stable.

 

5 terms

1.pedestrian-walker.1. The  streets of New  York are full  of  pedestrians.2.incisive-sharp, cutting.2. There is the biggest incisive surgical knife I have ever seen.3.equine-pertaining to resembling a horse.3 There are a lot of equines to a horse in the animal kingdom.4.bilk-defraud, cheat, or swindle.4. That store clerk is a bilk.5.martial- pertaining to the war.5. There goes Martial Jimmy Jones of the Great War.

The Big Picture and the Purtiest Robots

The Big Picture, a series of pictorial articles hosted by the Boston Globe. There are a number of robots that some of the DVICE readers will recognize, they have been featured in TBP’s Retrospective. There is the Wakamary, da Vinci robotic surgical system, Hal exoskeleton and even that crazy fore rescue robot. They even have a link to check out some of the other robots they took pictures of, probably from a competition.

Vocab Words

1.acute-acting keenly on the senses; sharp.1.I am very acute with algebraic equations because I can read them so fast.2.sanguine-optimistic,cheerful.2.My cousin is a very sanguine person.3.lampoon-composition that imitates or misrepresents someones style.3.Amy is trying to lampoon May’s outfit.4.hidebound-stubbornly conservative.4.Mary is a hidebound environmentalist.5.declaim-speak against.5.Sorry, but may I declaim against him.