Up, Up, and Awaaaay!!

This is something that I was reading about a few months ago. In every old-fashioned movie it depicts the year 2000 as having flying cars and robots. Well, robots have been around for a while, and now here come the hover cars. A company named Moller has created the first official "for sale" hover car. With 67 orders for the 500,000-995,000 dollar vehicles the orders expect to be completed and certified by December 31, 2008, right in time for the new year!

The car is called the M400 Skycar. 20,000 feet is considered cruising height for these vehicles, with a top speed of 375mph and cruising speed is about 275mph. They get about 20 MPG on gas (I wonder if that's highway or city...lol) and they can tote a load of up to 750 lbs. Also, they have been deemed safe to fly if one engine fails!

If anyone is interested in ordering one and obtaining a delivery position, with a minimum deposit of $10,000 here is a contact email:

bruce@moller.com

=)

Technology Reflection

So, I'm sitting here, and I just got off of work. I am super tired, but I have a lot to talk about. For starters, I am going for a promotion at my job (Best Buy) to become the Mac Specialist. I have done extensive online training and signed up with Apple to receive some more courses online to help me prepare for the position. I hope I get it. I am super excited! We get Macs in our store on February 28!!! I love the technology and I love learning about them. I love technology in general though.

I was working with a customer today and it dawned on me how much technology we have readily available at our fingertips and how far it has come in just the past few years. Looking back into a Best Buy sales paper from 2003, for $2000, you could get 256MB RAM, with a 40GB hard drive, and a 900mHz processor!! That's crazy!! Nowadays, that much money will buy you one of the most powerful machines money can buy! But then again, who am I to say that 5 years from now, I won't look back into a sales paper from Best Buy and say the same thing. Technology is so amazing and it progresses so rapidly! It seems like as soon a s you buy it, it's outdated... Is it really possible to stay abreast of the times? Is it really possible to have the newest, latest, and most cutting-edge technology?

The customer that I mentioned working with earlier, she was a fairly older lady. She was completely in awe at the technology encompassed by bluetooth. All I did was bluetooth a picture from my phone to print from a printer. She was absolutely amazed! It's so crazy how things that seem so minuscule in technology to our generation seem light years ahead of the times to others... I wonder if there will ever come a time when I'm completely amazed by something that may seem so common to younger generations... OMG!! I don't wanna get old!!!

New Media

New Media is so very interesting! I am taking 2 New Media classes semester and I am so excited. I really look forward to being in this class. I hope to use what I learn to help make an online show. The theme of my show is still to be determined but I have tons of amazing ideas. "RoyaltyTvOnline" will be a series of skits, talk shows, daily activities, and PURE RANDOMNESS! By using YouTube as my platform, I will not only post my videos there but also use the embedding feature to post my videos onto my very own website, which I have spoken with Mr. Aldrige about starting using available server space that he has.  I am certain that both of my New Media classes will teach me more than I could ever have imagined, and my website will be a hit in no time!