TREND OF TECHNOLOGY

New Trend of Technology



New Trend of Technology

Question 1: They showed various technologies. What technology was most interesting to you? Why?

After watching the video, the most interesting technology, which I liked was “Handheld Display Glass” because of its unique feature and design. Although, all of the technological items in the video are unique in different ways but, this “Handheld display glass” device attracted me. The characteristics mentioned as being thin and lightweight, damage resistance and touch sensitive adds to its value.

Question 2: Bill Gates customized a snow board using MS surface. What did he use instead of a mouse to select designs and to write his signature?

Bill gates used his “finger” to select all designs and write his signature on the snow board. Basically the concept was that Bill Gates was in a store to buy a customized snow board. He had MS surface to customize the snow board according to his personality. The snow board was initially plain; Mr. Gates put some designs on it by taking ideas from other snow boards. Further, he wrote his signature on the backside of the snowboard.

Question 3: According to the video, how did they select the music in a Sync enabled car?

Thousands of songs were there in a Mp3 player which got synchronized with the car player. There was a distinctive feature for song playing. The song playing got enabled by the control panel on the steering and the song selection gets enabled by verbal command. This was one of the unique and distinctive features. For instance, instruction asked “Please say a command!” the man said, “Play track, Cars” and the song gets played.

Question 4: According to Steve Ballmer, who are the target of Micro Soft in the next several decade and how many are they now?

According to Steve Ballmer, the target market of Microsoft in the next several decades will be the “global middle class”. The number of customers, he forecast, will grow from 1 million people to over 4 billion people. He suggests that their global and collective ability will help them to achieve this target.

Question 5: Steve and Ryan showed one of the thinnest laptops in the world. To demonstrate thinness of the laptop, they compared the laptop with something. What was it?

Steve and Ryan showed one of the thinnest laptops in the world named, “Dell Atomo XpX”. To demonstrate thinness of the laptop, they compared the laptop with “four poker chips” and the laptop was thinnest than these chips.

Question 6: Steve and Ryan demonstrated reading an Anatomy book using Blio reader (an ebook reader). What were the three functions that they demonstrated as exclusive features, which you cannot have in reading an ordinary book?

Steve and Ryan introduced the book by saying that carrying books is no more required. Digital books are there like kindle, Sony etc. Specifically they introduced “Blio Books e-reader. Blio e-reader contains over a million books. Blio took the PC reading to a whole new ...