Artifact 4a and 4b

In artifact 4a, the video showed a female figure sitting in a chair across from a man in a computer. The woman was moving her head and making certain facial expressions. She  looked completely real. When the camera zoomed in you could she that she in fact was fake. She was a robot. The man on the computer was giving her various commands on what to do whether it be to shake her head or raise her eye brow. There was even a point in the video where she started to talk. To me it looked like an amazing development in technology.

I think as the years come we are going to see more of this. This is definitely something that I could see happening all over the world. The development of these droids are simply amazing. Like I said she looked so real. I mean after you knew she was a robot you could tell but at first glance it looked like a normal woman sitting there. In the future I think that we could even see these robots being able to funtion without having to sit behind a computer and command it. I could se them being able to use something like a cell phone to command these things and make them do more and more things. We may not see this in our generation, but as developments of these droids proceed to get more in depth, I think it is possible to be able to make these things do whatever you want. Maybe some of them could even do your job. It is unbelievable what we can do today with technology, and I believe developments will keep getting better and better.


In artifact 4b, they are showing one of those old pencil sharpeners. It is not like same kind of sharpener I am used to seeing as this one had two different holes, one for sharpening the wood to a point, and the other, to sharpen the lead. Both of these holes in the sharpener combine to make the perfect long point on a pencil.

My first thought about this video was who actually uses these pencil sharpeners anymore? We have sharpeners that are mounted on to the wall, although most of them just eat up the pencil anyway, and we also have electric ones which are a lot easier to use. I knew that they still sold these little plastic sharpeners, but when they guy in the video said they were one of the more popular items that the company sells, I was very surprised. You just simply do not see people using these types of sharpeners, much less those kind of pencils. Mechanical pencils have been around for quite a while and don't require any kind of sharpening. The only thing I have ever seen regular pencils used for is the ACT. Most college students use pens to write everything, so it just seemed to be that these regular pencils were extinct. I guess this is one of those things that will be around forever, no matter what new writing technologies are developed.