Archive for January, 2010
News for gamers!!
During the Spike Video Game Awards 2009, an exclusive look on Halo: Reach and Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands shown. Along with the exclusive looks, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, a sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum and Green Day: Rock Band was announced during the event.
Microsoft and Sony both held conferences at the Consumer [...]
Stem-cell Research is Approved
Medicine has greatly improved over the last couple decades. Technologies have been created to counteract cancer and give people artificial body parts. Well here’s one of the newest medical breakthroughs yet, stem-cell research.
13 lines of embryonic stem-cells were recently approved for use in stem-cell research. Also, 96 different lines are currently under review.
Stem-cell research uses [...]
The Sixth Sense
The Sixth-sense is a computing system used to make life easier. This awesome gadget was invented by a couple of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) students from the media lab section of the college. This Gadget turns any surface into an interactive display screen. This is a great leap into technology because the sixth-Sense allows [...]
Link and Zelda in Spirit Tracks
By Lin Chen
When Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks (Nintendo DS) was first announced, some people grew skeptical of the game. The main reason is that the trailer revealed the green-clad hero Link riding on a train. People thought the idea of using a train in the game’s medieval setting would seem stupid. Now that the [...]
NHL Transforms Fenway Park Into an Ice rink
In a New Year’s Day snow flurry, the Boston Bruins took the ice against the Pennsylvania Flyers…at Fenway Park. Many rejoiced as the Bruins won in a spectacular over time goal by Marco Sturm. Among those many were the technical crew. Over the past few weeks preceding the game, the tech crew was faced with [...]
Top Ten iPod Touch/iPhone Apps
MLB.com At Bat (sports, $9.99) – The MLB.com At Bat app is the official application of Major League Baseball. When the app is opened, there is a list of the day’s games. There is a pitch by pitch play tracker that automatically updates every 15 seconds. But what really is unique about MLB.com At Bat [...]
China hacks Gmail accounts
On January 12, Google alerted its users in a blog post that its infrastructure had been attacked by hackers in China. The hackers had targeted some e-mail accounts of Gmail users who were human rights activists. Fortunately, only two of the targeted accounted were accessed and the contents of the e-mails was not discovered.
Also, it [...]
Green Day Preview
On February 4th, Day Middle School is having its very own Green Day, a day similar to Deaf Awareness Day; where students can learn about maintaining our planet. Set up by Sandy Chaet, tech ed teacher, and Jennifer Reese, 6th grade science teacher, it is meant to increase the basic awareness of our planet and [...]
Lego Rock Band Review
Game Review; Lego Rock Band
by Sam Eastman
Last December, worlds collided when MTV games, Harmonix studios, and the rest of the Rock Band crew came together with TT games to create: “Lego Rock Band.” The game’s intro video starts out with a band of Lego people playing the song “Grace” by “Supergrass” on top of a [...]
Day News
Welcome Back Day Families!
UPCOMING PTO/SCHOOL EVENTS
School Council – Wednesday, January 20th, at 7:30 PM– Day Library
The School Council is working on a number of interesting projects this year. School Council Meetings are open to anyone who wishes to attend. For more information, see their website at http://www.daypto.org/daycouncil/index.html.
Early Release Day – Thursday, February 4th – school [...]
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