Sean Swarner used to be a boy who was expected to live for 2 weeks. He had the fourth and final stage of Hodgkin's disease at only the age of thirteen. On top of that he got a tumor on his lungs. When the doctors removed it his chances of living went even lower then before. 10 years later Sean climbed the great Mt.Everest and became the first ever cancer survivor. He didn't stop there he wanted to climb the peeks in a seven continents. He followed his dream and later after climbing to the summit of Mt. McKinley he became the first cancer survivor to climb the seven summits. Sean Swarner overcame his fear of dieing from cancer and pursue his dream of climbing the summits. People used to think of Sean Swarner as a thirteen year old boy who was going to die and now they look up to him as a hero. Sean Swarner has wrote a book on his adventure and his life story. I guess when the odds seem against you, you just gotta keep climbin.
A 14 year old boy from Malawi Africa, made a windmill for his family. William Kamkwamba a school drop out designed a windmill using pictures and information out of a book he got from his local library.
This boy had nothing except his family. He was almost starving and he is turning his life right around. He never seen the Internet before now he has his own website. http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba His family was close to starving and he provided them as a 14 year old boy from starvation.
William Kamkwamba converted the energy from his windmills to pump water and electricity for his family and village. He wants more out of his windmills. Not just Malawi but other villages around his.
The story of William Kamkwamba teaches us all never to give up in what we are doing and to not lose hope in what ever we are executing.
Microsoft Word and Zoho are both word document software. Two different software will obviously have pros and cons against each other. Well lets start with price.
The latest version of Microsoft Word roughly starts at $110.00. The online word document Zoho cost approximently $0.00. Pricce wise Zoho already comes on top. Well both word docs are pretty general each have there features. I found that when i used Word that there was way more functions and things you can do with the document.
When I used Zoho I could still do the basics but there was still the odd thing that i couldn't do but with less functions it might be easier for a begginer to use Zoho over word. I have been using Word for almost all my life i just started using Zoho for my class. I like both but if I had to choose Word docs I would still use Microsoft word becuase i am most used to the software then Zoho.
Possibley the best idea for a charity that someone has ever had. A charity for the poor children in the world that can't afford a computer. These laptops will connect them to the rest of the world to let them know what is going on.
THE XO
The xo is a low powered derable laptop that can with stand extreme weather. It is a mini laptop that can generate wifi but wait.. how can you even get wifi in the middle of no where? If these countries cant afford education already how can they get internet.
WIFI
Using out to date routers they set up wifi connections all over the country. How do routers that spread wifi 10 feet share internet through a country. The XO shares wifi through each other so if an XO is 2km within another XO it will pick up its connection it wont be strong of course but it is better then having not internet at all.
THE SCREEN
The XO has two different screens. The one that displays the images to the users and two one that will take sunlight and use it to display the screen. Yes finally a laptop that you can use outside and when you are outside it will turn its monitor off. This will save power and like Isaid before you can actually see your monitor OUTSIDE haha yes outside.
The Battery
Like a stantard laptop it is equiped with a battery that you can plug in to charge but the XO has some extra features. THe XO comes with a crank that you can use to charge your battery when you do not have a power source. It has more features as I said before the XO has a dual screen one is a monitor and the other one uses sun light to power the monitor or converting it so you can use the laptop
Purchasing
Say you wanted to buy one of these XO laptops lets say for your kids. Well you can buy an XO just you wont be getting it. A deserving kid that cant even dream about having their own laptop. So you will be doing good for the world. This act may even get the world out of poverty.
Is there a use of cords anymore? Now MIT came out with a new way to spread energy to our appliances...Wireless. Can you imagine not having to plug in your phone or TV? Well now it is possible, wireless technology has been invented and will soon be released to the public.
A professor woke up for the third night in a row from his wife's cell phone beeping because it was running low on power. He thought to himself, "why couldn't the walls just use all the electricity inside themselves and power the phone?"
That professor came up with idea of resonant energy transfer. In a normal transformer to coils of wire transfer energy from one another. He came up with the idea of being able to stretch those coils and still transfer energy from them how?
Resonance- efficient energy exchange between tuned resonant objects. If you can cause a coil to resonate you are pretty much getting it to pulse in changing high frequency. If you can bring another device into that frequency range that will pick up that frequency it will pick it up and transfer it back into energy.Ya this energy will change everything..yes Germann everything.
With this technology we will be able to put theese Resonance devices in our walls and they could run everything in our house and you woulnt have to worry about charging you phone or plugging something in or even un plugging something.
In the past century we saw technology evolve drastically. In a Information Processing class I have found out on the technology that has come out to the public that pretty soon we won't be using computers anymore and that we will have mini computers built in to our clothing and will help us with our every day chores. I don't think that that will happen write away but i know that keyboards will soon be know more. The history of changes in computer software tells me that in the future the devices like the Peregrine and Microsoft speech will take over the use of the keyboard.
In the past to have information you would have to write it down on paper,then the typewriter was inverted then the keyboard. Now we are starting to get used to Microsoft speech. Even though the software is still kind of sketchy it has room to update.
Microsoft Speech
This software first has to recognize your voice before you can actually start talking or I guess you could call it typing.I found myself when I would talk that the microphone would pick up different words than the ones i was actually saying. I guess when we type we fumble keys around and don't actually type the right word all the the time. So I guess speech wouldn't be any different for spell check than a keyboard would.
Keyboards aren't just used for typing, they are also used for hot keys in gaming photo and video editing software and much more. The peregrine is a device invented by Brett Baier that make the use of hot keys a lot more simple.
The Peregrine, I'm talking about is not the bird but the glove with keys built into the fingers and and activator pads built into your palm and thumb. The point of the glove is so you don't have to look at your keyboard to remember hot keys. It makes it quicker and easier for using hot keys for such things like PC gaming. You just press your a key(on your finger) with the activation pad (on your thumb and palm) to use a hot key sounds difficult but is quite easy. It makes editing a lot easier when your using advanced software.
Well those examples above are only a couple that came to my head I'm sure you heard of different gadgets that will help replace the keyboard. By change in history of our we wrote things down and the devices that are being invented now i believe that the keyboard will be no more.
The world is changing magnificently. The way we take information or news around the world is unreal. Today we watched a video called Did you Know 4.0 and I learned that in the U.S.A there are 240 000 000 TVs that are owned by people and for some reason 2 million of them are in bathrooms. But i found out that t.v is not the way we take in or information. The rate of digital information is going up by the millions. In every month three major TV channels get 10 million uploads. Those channels have been around for quite awhile now though. Three websites that
Obviously this is where people are coming to watch videos for every reason. Why waste your money on a newspaper everyday when you can hit the world wide web and get your information for free. Paper is going to be useless pretty soon. The world will function on the machine. America itself has access to over 1 000 000 000 000 000 webpages, 65 000 iPhone apps,
Now people have equipment that is pretty much a mini computer in your pocket and yes you guessed it. Things like phones, i pods, cameras, etc pretty much all have wifi built right in to them so you can access the internet with the touch of a button or even now the touch of the screen.
If those stats don't blow your mind already check theses stats out Newspaper circulation is down 7 million in the past 25 years and in the last 5 years unique readers of online newspapers are up million. In the past year advertising for: Newspaper is down 18.7% TV 10.1% Radio 11.7 % and magazines 14.8 % but the digital advertising industry is going up: Cell phones 18.1 % and computers 9.2 %.
The way we take in info is changing rapidly. The world is running on the internet and portable digital devices.
In February John McCain raised 11 million for his U.S presidential bid. That same month Barack Obama attended no campaign fundraisers... HOWWWW????????
Well he went on social networking sites and raised 55million in those 29 days. haha ya..wow. If you think all this means nothing and the world inst going digital. I don't even know what to say to you and you shouldn't be viewing my blog.
