Google Earth: Cross Border Collaboration

The idea of our google earth project is to make it look like we traded spaces with each other. We are going to use photoshop to fit each other into the other's landmarks, such as showing us going to the airports and switch each other into other's airport.  From that, we will think how people can easily change the truth by using these softwares, and pointing out that the google earth is nothing more than a media.

- Overall - what worked/what was a challenge

Everything worked out very well and our schedules were all pretty flexible so the communication was very successful. We used the idea from Vancouver group, which we were agreed all with and thought the idea was interesting. The challenge was probably the lack of Photoshop knowledge. I had to do some researches and played around with the Photoshop to get the effects I want.

- how your group managed the "cross-border logistics" of communication, exchange of ideas, coming up with an idea, coordinating project parts?

We used skype and exchanged emails.

- Suggestions on how to address some of the challenges and ways to strengthen the collaboration

The limitation of times sort of holding us back from making it more elaborate.

- What you gained?

I became more comfortable to work with others as a group, also gained more geographical knowledge of the city of Vancouver.

-If you were to do it again, what would you do differently

I would probably suggest some ideas that we can all have a chance to work together; because what we did this time was to assign different tasks to each other and combined them after we finish them separately.

The Extend Body Project

My idea of this extend body project is to modify my hand and turn it into a military weapon. I removed the index finger and added a pistol on it. Next to the index finger is a blade that is hidden inside of my hand and can be slide out when needed. The third feature is another blade built inside of my waist; it is also folded inside of the waist and can slide out when needed. All the features are connected to a microcomputer located on the waist that is also a GPS and shows the amount of ammo in the pistol. All the weapons are connected to the nerves, and are triggered through nerves so only the owner itself can active the weapons. I can now attack enemy without alarmed them as much as using the regular weapons because the weapons are now build in my hand. I think the military would be really benefited if human really developed a system that has weapons build inside of the body. They would have dominated more campaigns with less injury. The only down side would probably be the authorization of this system; crimes would be a lot more armored if they obtained this system and it’s going to be hard to fight with them. In order to install this system, an individual will have to remove its fingers and this will change the appearance of its hand. The social relationship is also going to change because it will make people started to thinking what is the reason for this person to sacrifice his hand and turn it into a deadly weapon.