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.

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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>.

Advice from the Billionaire

Advice from the Billionaire

College students across the country will accept diplomas and step out into the real world for the first time this month. Some have jobs, many don’t, but all are hopeful about what lies ahead. These are important for students after college, they have to live their lives and there are tips to be a billionaire. There are advice to help them for their future.

Steve jobs used to says that to live every day as if your last day, it is a very simple and moving words. What this statement is trying to say is that to use every moment in your life it's fullest, give 150% on everything. Try your best at everything.

Concepts

• Billionaires are giving advice to the young people that just finished college.
• Young people will be facing the real world for the first time.
• Steve Jobs gave advice about how to live to the fullest.

Advantages

• Some people might not be having jobs.
• Real world is easy when you know the rules
• Having a moral in life can help you improve in your career

Disadvantages

• It might be tough for people who just started to work.
• It can be depressing when you have more responsibility in life
• If you don't get a good advice you might not know what to do with your career

Questions

• Is the real world really tough?
• Did you think that you can be a billionaire?\

Solomon, Brian. "Billionaires' Tips For New Grads: Advice From Jobs, Oprah, Zuckerberg And More." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 09 May 2012. Web. 27 Mar. 2013.

Google Glass

Google Glass

         So recently Google has announce that there is the new big thing coming soon, and it is called a Google Glass. Google Glass is the wearable computer, it is a high tech spectacle which can be use hand-free and by using your voice to command it. It can also access the internet by using your voice command. 

      Other than being interesting and amusing to use, so there are question that came out saying that how would a person feel to interact with a person who is using the Google Glass because it is seem that you are being recorded while you are interacting with that person. It is even legal to record another person all the time, and will it invade the privacy of the person who is facing the user.

Concepts

• The Google glass is the new big thing that is coming up.
• The Google glass is very fun to use.
• But will the person that is interacted with will be uncomfortable.

Advantages

• Google chrome is will the futuristic technology
• It can be use to search information via internet.
• It can be used with only the voice command.

Disadvantages

• It can invade other person's privacy.
• This product is expensive.
• This product can be easily broken.

Questions

• Is it legal to tape other people all the time?
• Do you think many people will buy this product?

Citations:

"Humor: The Truth About Google Glasses | Redmond Pie." Redmond Pie RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Mar. 2013.

"Google Glass." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 26 Feb. 2012. Web.

History of the internet

History of the internet

            Internet is the largest computer network in the world which caused many small computer network to form a large network which is as follows, the computer from 2 or more can be able to communicate each other by pass through the cable and, satellite. The contact will be exchanged for each other or use devices together. We call this behavior of computer characteristic as network, which is when have more computer in the network and have a links throughout the world into a larger network. All of this are the meaning of the internet.

     Internet was born in about 1969. It developed by ARPAnet which the computer network under the responsibility of Advanced Research Projects Agency or ARPA which it was one of the agencies in Department of Defense of the United State Of America. The point of ARPAnet project is for create the computer network that left the abilities in communication to each other. Although there are some of network that cannot work.

Concepts

• Writer is telling us that internet was created long time ago.
• Writer is also telling that us that internet can be very useful for communication.
• Writer is telling us that is the largest computer network in the world.

Advantages

• Internet helps people to share information, and thoughts,
• Internet can be use of commercials, to commercialize your products, and services.
• It is a great way to spend time educating and entertaining ourselves.

Disadvantages

• People tend to spends more time on internet and it causes fattening physical, and mental illness
• Internet can be use for spamming, which is widely use to spread the nonsense and false media
• Internet are also use for spreading the computer viruses, which causes your internet to slowdown.

Questions

• Do you think that internet can change a view on people?
• Do you think that internet can be use for stealing and plagiarizing?

Citations:

"Vizual Archive." Vizual Archive. N.p., n.d. Web.

"Internet." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Mar. 2013. Web. 18 Mar. 2013.