Monday, April 21, 2008

Take me drunk i'm home

New Cell Can Tell If You're Drunk
They were originally designed to simply make phone calls without tying callers to one location. But today's cell phones can do so much more, from snapping digital photos to sending text messages to playing video.
You can add one more feature to the list: a sobriety test.
That's right, cell phones with built-in Breathalyzers are set to hit the U.S. market. So after a night of too much to drink, you can pull out the device to see if you're fit to get behind the wheel.
South Korean manufacturer LG will introduce the LP4100 to the U.S. market sometime in the near future -- though no date is set.
The phones were previewed at the annual Consumer Electronics Show -- CES -- in Las Vegas earlier this year.
Here's how it works: Users blow into a small spot on the phone, and if they've had too much to drink the phone issues a warning and shows a weaving car hitting traffic cones.
"So they test it and it says don't drive so they leave their car or call the taxi," explained Sung Mee Cho of Seju Engineering Inc.
The company also sells plug-in Breathalyzer adapters for some phones. None of the models tell you exactly how much you may be over or under the legal limit, but it can keep you from making other alcohol-related mistakes.
The LP4100 also allows users to set up the phone so on certain nights and after a certain time they do not call certain people in their phone book. Think ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend.
If you have a blood alcohol level over .08, the phone will not let you dial that person. So it not only promotes sobriety, but chastity -- and probably your dignity, as well.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Origination of Apple Corporation


Apple was co-founded in 1976 by Steve Paul Jobs, the CEO of the company and Steve Wozniak. The name of the company, Apple Corporation, was based on Steve Jobs favourite fruit and the logo was chosen to play on both the company name and the word byte. Apple leads the industry in innovation with its award winning Macintosh computers, OS X operating system, and consumer and professional applications software. Apple is also leading the digital music revolution, having sold over 110million iPods and over 3billion songs from its iTunes online store. Apple has also entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.



Apple uses its position as a leading personal computer technology company to participate in emerging technology markets. The technology that Apple offers is advanced in terms of its applications, software and hardware hence, the company itself has contributed to the burst in new media of today. The products offered by Apple allow for effortless usage and has contributed to creating a "globalized village" in terms of the advanced standardised technology that come with their products. For example, web cams come standard with the Apple Mac computers.
The iPods allow for sharing of music and videos, as well as the downloading of music from their iTunes store. Through the products that Apple offers some unity is formed accross the globe as people of different cultures come together with the same interests which aids in creating this "globalized village". Apple has most definately contributed to the technology era of New Media.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Development of Photography

Photography has an adventurous history, with early contributions from French scientists A. Fizeau, and the Russian, A. Grekov for example. The humble name comes from the French term “photographie” based on the Greek words, which interpret ‘paintbrush’ of ‘drawing’. The early beginnings of Daguerreotype period had no lasting effect, as the imaging was too expensive and very difficult to view. The development continued to Calotype method, which had more advantages.
At the end of 40’s the inventor Niepce de Saint-Victor substituted paper negative for starch and egg white layers covered glass. More interested had gathered in this phenomenon of capturing life. The reality that can be shared, gave photography the personification of life. The duplicating of photographs became possible in 1851 by Englishman S. Archer. The founder of Kodak


George Eastman began the production of celluloid film. The explosive art form took of in 1904 with the first color photography plates, produced by the Lumiere Film. Today the photographical sculpture is recognised as a science in art. The documentation, analysis, digitalization and artistic craft that interests both young and old in applied activity. Photography hybridizes the world of reality and sheer fascination. It is this interactivity, which transforms the traditional to postmodern.