Earth day project

Apps to makes your morning better

Most people nowadays have a morning problem, by that I mean they can't wake up early and are not always organised. Mash-able have put up 6 apps that will help makes your day better starting off with an app to wake you up in the morning. Sworkit is an app that makes people who wake up in the morning and likes to exercise enjoy their morning. It is a training app that makes you workout for around 5-60 minute in the morning. Morning workouts are for your muscle to not get used up in certain routines. The fourth app is called Ted this app is just an app with science, technology and random things. This app is called alarm clock extreme, what this app does is that it helps you wake up in the morning. Everyone hates the snoozing sound of the alarm clock in the morning, with this app it allows you to make the snoozing sound even louder every time it snooze. It can also gives you math problem for you to solve to unlock the snooze. So this app is designed to wake you up and there is a free version with ads and a paid version without ads for $1.99. The second app is called sunrise this apps makes people who love to check their e-mail every morning easier. Just by opening this app it is linked with Facebook, Google calendar, LinkedIn, etc.So it will show you today weather, event or even who is celebrating their birthdays. The third app is called 

Major concepts

• These apps can help people to wake up
• People are hard to wake up nowadays, so there are apps for them.

Potential Strength/Advantages 

• By introducing this, it help us know these apps
• We are having apps that can makes the morning better.

Potential Strength/Disadvantage

• We can becomes lazier by relying on these apps.
• People could overdose on working out.

Discussion Question

• Will people buy these apps?
• Will these apps can be really useful?

Drell, Lauren. "Mashable." Mashable. N.p., 14 Feb. 2013. Web. 19 Feb. 2013.

What Happens To The Internet Every Second, Minute, Hour and Day.

Summary

Internet is now on the list of things that people needed nowadays, most of the people say that they will die without the internet, this show how much people these days are addicted to the internet.There are a total of 2.5 billion internet users world-wide and these people are using the internet a lot. By breaking down on how much internet we actually use per second, minute, hour and day the number is really shocking. For example in one second there are 1,633 tweets are published on twitter. 694,445 Google searches happen every second, and also 780,000 apps are being download per second too.


Major Concept

• The author is trying to show how much internet we use
• Shows how we are addicted to the internet

Advantages 

• Make us understand how many people are addicted to the internet
• Help us to realize that we rely on it too much
• Help us to reduce the time we are on the internet.

Disadvantage

• Show how many people are relying on the internet.
• Makes us to feel how addicted we are and feel bad about ourselves.

Discussion Question

• How did they get all these numbers?
• How does the internet affects people

Bennett, Shea. "What Happens On The Internet Every Second, Minute, Hour And Day? [INFOGRAPHIC]." - AllTwitter. N.p., 28 Feb. 2013. Web. 19 Mar. 2013.

Google androids on households

Summary

So lately Google android have been expanding their field into your kitchen appliances. Now with Google android connected to your rice cooker you can set it up just by using your smartphone. Also imagine you doing your laundry and your TV can show you that your laundry is done while you're watching TV. In Japan Panasonic make a cloud-based system to let your microwave and rice cooker have programmed recipe to look at and make it. It just makes and allow our technology to the next level.

Major Concept

• It shows how technology 
• Remember when people wanted the whole house to be controlled by remotely now that could be possible.
• It shows the people that technology is a really powerful thing.

Potential Strength/ Advantages

• Makes our life a lot easier.
• Makes our life more interesting and fun.

Potential Strength/ Disadvantages

• People will become more lazy.
• There might be some problem with the controls and you can't control it.

Discussion Question

• Is it safe if the electricity goes out?
• What else could be controlled?

Next Generation Of Mobile Gaming: Sphero

Summary

Nowadays people are using smartphone even more than laptop, so there is a lot of new generation of mobile gaming. Sphero is a new generation of gaming using high-tech technology to create it. It's a shape of a sphere with accelerometer and gyroscope in it. It is also really easy to use and control it. Sphero allows you to play different games with phone apps that are free in the app store. It is a new innovation that will change mobile gaming forever. This is the first robotic ball that you can control it using a smartphone. There are different ways of using the Sphero and it is even better when you're playing it with your friends. Nonetheless this is a new and exciting ways to play with your smartphone.

Major Concept

• It shows that there are a lot of other ways for mobile gaming.
• It shows that people are creating more robotic device.
• It also shows that people are really stuck onto smartphone even more than laptops.

Potential Strength/Advantages 

• Makes everyone's life a lot more interesting
• Give people more motivation to create cooler technology.

Potential Strength/Disadvantage 

• People will be more addicted to life and be lazy.
• One day robot might takeover the world can we can be the slaves of robots.

Discussion Question 

• What could possibly happen in the future using this kind of technology?
• What other games can be played with this innovation?

"The Next Generation of Mobile Game Controllers." Sphero. Sphero, 9 June 2013. Web. 21 Jan. 2013.

Virtual brain app from Google

The Google engineers are trying to create a software that simulates connected human brain cells that can be independently communicating with one another and learning without human input. The Neural networks have been used for a period of time, such as chess-playing software, the face detection function. But the engineers from Google have found new ways to put the better function and abilities without the help of human. Google is now using these thing to recognize speech more accurately, they sat that they got between 20 and 25 percent improvement  in terms of words that are wrong. Other Google products will likely to be improve over time with the help of the new learning software.

Advantages

- The software can use to simulates connect human brain cells that can use to communicate with others.
- The software can operate without the help of the humans.
- It can use to recognize speech and detect faces.

Disadvantages

- This is still on process and is not sure whether to be this good of an software it says.
- Connecting software that will connect with human brain cells is really dangerous.
- It will use a lot of money to experiment this software.

Discussion questions

- Will the experiment of this software will harm animals?
- What is your estimation on the time it will take for this software to be done.

"BGR." BGR. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Apr. 2013.

http://bgr.com/2012/10/05/google-virtual-brain-technology-boosts-app-performanc/

The apple's new ear pods.

         Apple's headphone output to the new EarPods which is supplied with the new products of Apple like iPhone 5, iPod touch, iPod nano, etc., and for people who want to have the EarPods, you can be purchase it easily from any apple store, or other authorized shop, and it can be also sold online. This price is 1,090 Baht. EarPods have two types, the first one is for the iPhone, which it have a added Remote / Mic Noise Reduction. The other type are suitable for iPod and iPod touch, it doesnt have a Remote/Mic but it can still be use for both.

The box design of the EarPods  are well made, it easier to keep a the strings, they roll around the box. It is very good to carry.It seems that the headset has a different design from the original ear pods  But it's still white as ever. The general view is similar to but not the in-ear headphones on the stem of a plastic solid, which is more durable than the old version. Remote button for increase / decrease the volume is easier to use than the original because it's bigger. EarPods sound quality is much better than the original one. The sound dimension, the bass are very clear Even at the low volume, you cab still hear a good deep bass.

Advantages

• It is easier to wear around comfortably.
• The sound quality is much, much better.
• The new ear pods from apple is much more comfortable and it actually fit to all the ears, this is like a pair of shoes for everyone. There is an air hole that can relieve the pressure.

Disadvantages

• Still the earpods is easily can be broken
• The material that is used on the ear pods is a good quality material but it is not durable as much as other earphones.

Question

• Why don't the earpods come with a different colors other than white
• What is the use of the black little hole in the middle of the earpods.

Ward, Matthew. "Hands on." Hands on. n. page. Web. 6 Nov. 2012. <http://www.macworld.com/article/2009928/hands-on-apples-new-earpods-headphones.html>.