Friday 13 September 2013

Electronic license plates?

California is the home to everything famous, fresh and exciting. It's the best coast west coast, the Golden State, undeniable, and of course always has something new and interesting to offer. Just recently, the California State Senate approved a bill with Smart Plate Mobile that is going to allow a pilot program to test electronic license plates. Literally, pretty soon there will be .5% of California residents driving cars with iPads on the rear of them. This may sound crazy, and maybe even a little bit exciting (admit it), but there certainly are questions that need to be addressed before it's made a common car quality.
It does sound rather cool to have digital numbers on the back of your vehicle.
"The young and restless of tech will be able to have their new 'TE$LA1' plate beamed directly to their car." says CNET.
One of the problems that need to be addressed before fully launching this program would be tracking. There are a good majority of people who really don't care about with what the government interferes, but the suspicious (and the guilty) could be uncomfortable driving with these license plates. Tracking will most likely be as easy as being accessed through a mobile data network, which will let the powers know where you are, at all times. It's clear that Smart Plate Mobile will have access to everyone's location. Even, possibly, the DMV too. You have to admit, even if you don't have anything to hide, that is a little scary.
But imagine what else would come with it. It sounds comical to be riding on the freeway and in front of you is a car with a plate that says "EXPIRED." And what fun would it be to see Ferraris with the word "STOLEN"?
The news of this isn't very popular yet and the amount of Smart Plate users hasn't even reached .5%, but it is very possible that digital and electronic license plates will be a mandatory piece of our future vehicles.

Wednesday 4 September 2013

Done Hibernating & More Pokemon

Alright, HI GUYS, I suppose I should explain to you all where I've been hibernating for the past six weeks. Well... I've been at school. And my computer broke. First, my computer broke. And yes, I tried hard-resetting it and rebooting it and all that but it still stubbornly refused to start up. So I had taken it to the Geek Squad (ikr) and three weeks later they brought it back to me in working condition but basically said it just got overheated...okay, whatevs lol it shouldn't take three weeks to repair overheated hardware but nonetheless cool it works. So, that explains the first half of my absence, but the second half is really just school's fault. I've started my junior year in American high school a few weeks ago and it really has kept me busy. My most interesting classes are trigonometry, programming and graphics. Programming has been my favourite. And, not to brag....but I'm a little teachers pet. Even though I'm one of the only two girls in there plus the youngest, I'm the most advanced. (ha-ha!) The class is starting off with basic web page HTML coding and I'm far off working on programming an indie game I'm making in Scratch. (you're a human trying to run away from a cow because you wanted to eat it. of course i'd make my game about that, right? have you found the vegan yet?) But whenever a student needs help with something, they don't even ask the teacher, they ask me and I always know what's up. It's a good boost of confidence! But anyway, that's what I've been doing and I apologise for slacking off. I'm getting back into the routine now though! Oh, and also, when I'm finished with my game which I should be within the next few months, I'm going to convert it into an iPhone app and I'll post a link for you to download it, if any of you are interested.

Meanwhile, I have some more potentially new Pokemon information for you. In the past weeks, some rumours have begun spreading, claiming that there is another new Pokemon game coming for the Wii U. At the Pokemon Game Show, a trailer was revealed, showing brief flashbacks of memorable moments throughout the entire game series, from the 90's trading card game to Black & White. Towards the end of the video, off-and-on you can see brief clips of two unfamiliar Pokemon in battle, foreshadowing the drop of another game, and then the screen faded away.

In previous portable Pokemon games, the battles were based around arena-style fights, like in Pokemon Stadium and Pokemon Battle Revolution. However, it is unclear if this possible game will continue on that tradition.