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Continuing our discussion of CES, I want you to go to CNET and pick one of the category winners and tell us why you would use it and you think it's cool. You may also pick a categoy winner and tell us why it's stupid and you would never use it.
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http://ces.cnet.com/best-of-ces/?tag=mainMedia;imageWrapper
Monday, January 30, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Blog 18 1/23/12
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So CES 2012 is now history. If you did what I asked you to do two weeks ago, then you know what I'm talking about. If not, Google CES right now.
Here are some mind-boggling numbers:
3,100 - The number of technology companies that showed up in Las Vegas to debut their new tech toys.
153,000 - The number of technology professionals who attended the show.
34,000 - The number of attendees who came from other countries to attend the show.
20,000 - The number of new products that were launched at the show.
1,861,000 - The number of square feet the show took up.
44 - The number of years the show has been running.
(Source: pocket-lint.com)
So what was the biggest unveiled product at CES this year? That's debatable, but I have seen A LOT of buzz about OLED TVs. OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode. Apparently Samsung has a new 55-inch OLED TV that is .6 inches thick. Less than 3/4 of an inch thick! It's also really easy to add 3-D capability to the OLED TVs. Holy cow! It's a BDD in the technology world. Never before has a television been so thin or so clear. Take a look:
So CES 2012 is now history. If you did what I asked you to do two weeks ago, then you know what I'm talking about. If not, Google CES right now.
Here are some mind-boggling numbers:
3,100 - The number of technology companies that showed up in Las Vegas to debut their new tech toys.
153,000 - The number of technology professionals who attended the show.
34,000 - The number of attendees who came from other countries to attend the show.
20,000 - The number of new products that were launched at the show.
1,861,000 - The number of square feet the show took up.
44 - The number of years the show has been running.
(Source: pocket-lint.com)
So what was the biggest unveiled product at CES this year? That's debatable, but I have seen A LOT of buzz about OLED TVs. OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode. Apparently Samsung has a new 55-inch OLED TV that is .6 inches thick. Less than 3/4 of an inch thick! It's also really easy to add 3-D capability to the OLED TVs. Holy cow! It's a BDD in the technology world. Never before has a television been so thin or so clear. Take a look:
Here's the site that pic came from:
Also, GO here and watch this:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/01/ces-samsungs-oled-tv/
So from the article listed above, answer TWO of the following questions to receive credit this week:
1) When do LG and Samsung intend to bring OLED to market?
2) What is one of the two reasons that previous OLED attempt have failed?
3) What happens to blue OLED pixels?
4) How did LG work around the problem?
5) How are OLEDs like plasma?
6) How are OLEDs different than plasma?
7) Why is the contrast better in OLED than in plasma?
8) What are two of the three benefits of LCD / LED TV?
9) What is the drawback of LCD TV?
10) What are the two major types of television technology today?
Find YOUR OWN answers. If everybody starts answering the same two questions I'm gonna give everybody a zero for the week. I'm tired of people phoning it in on the blog.
Next week? More CES stuff.
Talk to me . . .
Monday, January 16, 2012
Blog 17 1/16/12
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Let's get deep this week.
I want to talk about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his thoughts on technology.
In 1964 Dr. King delivered a lecture the day after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in which he told his audience at the University of Oslo that "material advancement was meaningless without an accompanying moral structure." In other words, the growing abundance of technology is undermining the human spirit. My favorite quote from the article is: "The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually," he said. "We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers."
Do NOT post until Thursday. Doing so will earn you a zero.
This week I'm asking you to think, REALLY THINK about Dr. King's words. I want his words to work on you a little bit.
He is telling us that technology advancement needs to go hand in hand with spiritual advancement, or it's all for nothing. THINK. Do you agree or disagree with Dr. King? WHY? You will answer both of those questions to receive credit this week.
Talk to me . . .
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/12/dayintech_1211
Let's get deep this week.
I want to talk about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his thoughts on technology.
In 1964 Dr. King delivered a lecture the day after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in which he told his audience at the University of Oslo that "material advancement was meaningless without an accompanying moral structure." In other words, the growing abundance of technology is undermining the human spirit. My favorite quote from the article is: "The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually," he said. "We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers."
Do NOT post until Thursday. Doing so will earn you a zero.
This week I'm asking you to think, REALLY THINK about Dr. King's words. I want his words to work on you a little bit.
He is telling us that technology advancement needs to go hand in hand with spiritual advancement, or it's all for nothing. THINK. Do you agree or disagree with Dr. King? WHY? You will answer both of those questions to receive credit this week.
Talk to me . . .
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/12/dayintech_1211
Friday, January 6, 2012
Blog for 4th period 1/9/12
Hey guys -
You BETTER be acting right, or you know I'll haunt you on Friday. :-)
Please go look at emerging technology today and post blog ideas. Don't forget to sign your submission.
Love yall the best! See ya Friday!
Mrs. L
You BETTER be acting right, or you know I'll haunt you on Friday. :-)
Please go look at emerging technology today and post blog ideas. Don't forget to sign your submission.
Love yall the best! See ya Friday!
Mrs. L
Monday, January 2, 2012
Blog 16 1/2/12
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Next week is CES in Las Vegas. It's also midterms so we won't blog about it until the week after, but in the meantime I want you to google CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and see what comes up.
And THEN I want to look at the Best of 2011 on Yanko. Here's the link.
http://www.yankodesign.com/2011/12/23/best-of-yanko-design-2011/
Pick one of the BEST OF products and talk about it.
This is a DISCUSSION. I want opinions with reasons!!! If you can't give me that much effort, then I can't give you enough effort to type a 100 in your grade book!
Talk to me . . .
Next week is CES in Las Vegas. It's also midterms so we won't blog about it until the week after, but in the meantime I want you to google CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and see what comes up.
And THEN I want to look at the Best of 2011 on Yanko. Here's the link.
http://www.yankodesign.com/2011/12/23/best-of-yanko-design-2011/
Pick one of the BEST OF products and talk about it.
This is a DISCUSSION. I want opinions with reasons!!! If you can't give me that much effort, then I can't give you enough effort to type a 100 in your grade book!
Talk to me . . .
Monday, December 12, 2011
Blog 15 12/13/11
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We will continue the kitchen talk when we get back. For this week, I want to do one of my favorite things.
Just in case you've been living under a rock, it's almost Christmas time. In fact, here's the exact time left until Christmas:
Copyright allthingschristmas.com
For this weeks blog, pretend I'm giving you $300 with which to buy TECHNOLOGY gifts. They can be for you or for someone else.
Here are the rules:
1. It must be TECHNOLOGY.
2. You must spend all $300, or as close to it as possible.
3. You must post links to your stuff (with prices) so we can all go look.
And don't bother to worry about shipping costs.
You may blog on Tuesday like we do for Yanko. Please try not to suck the fun out of this for me.
Have a wonderful, RELAXING holiday season! See yall rested and ready to go in January.
Talk to me . . .
We will continue the kitchen talk when we get back. For this week, I want to do one of my favorite things.
Just in case you've been living under a rock, it's almost Christmas time. In fact, here's the exact time left until Christmas:
Copyright allthingschristmas.com
For this weeks blog, pretend I'm giving you $300 with which to buy TECHNOLOGY gifts. They can be for you or for someone else.
Here are the rules:
1. It must be TECHNOLOGY.
2. You must spend all $300, or as close to it as possible.
3. You must post links to your stuff (with prices) so we can all go look.
And don't bother to worry about shipping costs.
You may blog on Tuesday like we do for Yanko. Please try not to suck the fun out of this for me.
Have a wonderful, RELAXING holiday season! See yall rested and ready to go in January.
Talk to me . . .
Monday, December 5, 2011
Blog 14 12/5/11
Howdy!
So on Monday all over the news media was a story about this horiffic car crash in Japan that is possibly the most expensive car crash ever.
Go read this:
http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/asia-pacific/the-worlds-most-expensive-car-crash-ferraris-mercedes-and-a-lamborghini-in-japan-collision
Which prompted me to wonder "Don't these high-end cars have safety and stabilization features that are supposed to cut down on this sort of thing?"
So for this week's blog credit YOU get to do the research. You must go out on to the internets and find an article, some published research, or something from the manufacturers website regarding the safety technology in either a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes or Toyota Prius. Once somebody has posted a link it becomes OFF LIMITS! In order to receive credit you must find your own link.
Paste the link in your comments, give us a few words of opinion, sign and submit.
We're moving on next week. I have something specific in mind.
Talk to me . . .
So on Monday all over the news media was a story about this horiffic car crash in Japan that is possibly the most expensive car crash ever.
Go read this:
http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/asia-pacific/the-worlds-most-expensive-car-crash-ferraris-mercedes-and-a-lamborghini-in-japan-collision
Which prompted me to wonder "Don't these high-end cars have safety and stabilization features that are supposed to cut down on this sort of thing?"
So for this week's blog credit YOU get to do the research. You must go out on to the internets and find an article, some published research, or something from the manufacturers website regarding the safety technology in either a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes or Toyota Prius. Once somebody has posted a link it becomes OFF LIMITS! In order to receive credit you must find your own link.
Paste the link in your comments, give us a few words of opinion, sign and submit.
We're moving on next week. I have something specific in mind.
Talk to me . . .
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