Week 5 step 3

The Large Hadron Collider is the largest and most complex scientific instrument ever built and the highest energy particle accelerator in the world.
The accelerator is located 100 m underground and runs through both French and Swiss territory. ( 27km circumference)

Year 2008 September 10th, marks the culmination of 20 years of work by over 8000 scientists thousands of engineers, technicians and support staff from over 80 different countries.

some critics say that this could create a black hole and suck up the entire world. but many say that even if a black hole is created it will vanish within a millionth of a second..

Latest : they have successfully done the 1st testing on the 10th September 2008, sending 2 beams separately clockwise and anticlockwise, which had successfully gone all the way around the ring. but there had been some minor errors, which we dont have to worry about.

Week 5 step 2

Internet 
1. October 29, 1969 in the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Stanford Research Institute (SRI).
2. Charley Kline and Bill Duvall.
3. It is a universal global carries a vast range of information resources and services
YouTube  
1. 2005 and April 2006, above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California.
2.  Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim 
3. YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos.Unregistered users may watch videos, and registered users may upload an unlimited number of videos.  
Large Hadron Collider
1.  The idea of the LHC project was born in 1984 and was formally approved by ten years later.
2. 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries, as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.
3. It is expected to address some of the most fundamental questions of physics, advancing the understanding of the deepest laws of nature 
Web Camera
1. First developed in 1991, a webcam was pointed at the Trojan Room coffee pot in the Cambridge University Computer Science Department
2. employees of the department of computer technology at Cambridge University
3.  Their most popular use is the establishment of video links, permitting computers to act as videophones or videoconference stations. Other popular uses include security surveillance and computer vision. Webcams are known for their low manufacturing cost and flexibility. They have also become a source of security and privacy issues, as some built-in webcams can be remotely activated via spyware.
GPS-navigator
1,2. Ivan A. Getting of Raytheon and Aerospace Corporation, who in the 1950s "incubated GPS in his mind;" Bradford Parkinson of the U.S. Air Force, who helped create GPS in 1972; and Roger Easton, of the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory, who filed the enabling patent in 1974.
3. GPS can be used everywhere except in places where you can not receive satellite signals. Quite interesting is the use of GPS by many scientists and researchers as a source of accurate time. The purposes for which GPS is used by amateurs outdoor recreation are as varied as the types of such holidays. Anyone who wants to know where he is and where he came from, how it get to your destination, how fast it moves and when you reach goal - can easily enjoy the advantages provided by GPS.iPod
1.iPod is a line of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple and launched on October 23, 2001.
2. Kane Kramer 
3. iPod is a complete system that includes all the necessary only. But the player can easily be expanded and supplemented. If you're away from civilization, and the battery is discharged, the adapter will allow 12:00 to listen to music with simple battery. You can make your iPod Voice Recorder, throw off while on vacation at the pictures from your camera.  
Yota 
1. 2007, Yota works in Russia and Nicaragua
2. 10% owned by a Cypriot company WiMax Holding Ltd., 74,9% of which belongs to the fund Telconet Capital Limited Partnership, 25,1% - "Rostekhnologii". CEO - Dennis Sverdlov
3. Yota - a service company that provides services on the basis of fast wireless internet (4G) technology Mobile WiMAX.Eta technology provides high speed internet access - up to 10 Mbps at any time, anywhere in the coverage area and maintains the connection even in the motion, at speeds up to 120 km / h! 

Week 5 step 1

1. Internet

Tim Berners-Lee 
Born: 8 June 1955
Birthplace: London, England
Best Known As: Inventor of the World Wide Web
A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.
He is the 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ( CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG). He is also a Professor in the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton, UK.
He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. He is a founding Director of the Web Science Trust (WST) launched in 2009 to promote research and education in Web Science, the multidisciplinary study of humanity connected by technology. 
He is also a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, launched in 2009 to fund and coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.
During 2009 Tim also advised the UK Government's "Making Public Data Public" initiative. 
In 2001 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has been the recipient of several international awards including the Japan Prize, the Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize, the Millennium Technology Prize and Germany's Die Quadriga award. In 2004 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit. In 2009 he was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of "Weaving the Web"
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web and the infrastructure to support electronic mail. 

2.Youtube 
Steven Shih Chen (born August 1978) is a Taiwanese American and a co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube.

Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. When he was eight years old, he and his family immigrated to the United States. Before moving to America, he studied at Ching Shin Elementary School, Taiwan for two years. He attended River Trails Middle School in Mt. Prospect, Illinois and later John Hersey High School and Illinois Math and Science Academy, later attending University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. In 2005, the three founded YouTube. He currently holds the position of Chief Technology Officer at YouTube. Chen was also an early employee at Facebook, although he left after several months to start YouTube. In June 2006, Chen was named by Business 2.0 as one of "The 50 people who matter now" in business.On October 16, 2006, Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to Google, Inc. for $1.65 billion. YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.
The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, BBC, Vevo, Hulu and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.
Unregistered users may watch videos, and registered users may upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users 18 and older. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.

3.Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It is expected to address some of the most fundamental questions of physics, advancing the understanding of the deepest laws of nature. This synchrotron is designed to collide opposing particle beams of either protons at an energy of 7 teraelectronvolts  per particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV per nucleus.

The Large Hadron Collider was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesized Higgs boson and of the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetry. It was built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries, as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.

 4. Web camera

No one knows who the exact creator of the web cam was, but the first one was discovered in the computer science department in Cambridge University. This particular webcam became inactive on the 22nd of August, 2001. It was used to check a coffee pot in the Trojan Room at the University of Cambridge.

A webcam is a video camera which feeds its images in real time to a computer or computer network, often via USB, ethernet or Wi-Fi.

5. GPS navigator

The diverse teams of GPS inventors and designers were led by at least three outstanding American scientists. They are Ivan A. Getting of Raytheon and Aerospace Corporation, who in the 1950s "incubated GPS in his mind;" Bradford Parkinson of the U.S. Air Force, who helped create GPS in 1972; and Roger Easton, of the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory, who filed the enabling patent in 1974.

A GPS navigation device is any device that receives Global Positioning System (GPS) signals for the purpose of determining the device's current location on Earth.

 6. IPOD

Kane Kramer is a British inventor and business man. He is credited with the initial invention of the digital audio player, in 1979. In 1981 Kramer filed for a UK patent for his newly conceived Digital Audio Player, the IXI. UK patent 2115996 was issued in 1985, and U.S. Patent 4,667,088 was issued in 1987. The player was the size of a credit card with a small LCD screen and navigation and volume buttons and would have held data on an 8 MB bubble memory chip with a capacity of 3.5 minutes worth of audio. Five working prototypes were produced and one was unveiled in a trade exhibition in October 1986. Kramer reportedly had £60,000,000[citation needed] in orders for the device from the music industry. However, in 1988 a boardroom dispute within Kramer's company and the subsequent failure to raise the £60,000 required to renew the patent resulted in the patent lapsing and the designs entered the public domain.

iPod is a line of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple and launched on October 23, 2001.

7. YOTA

The Yota logo is known informally as ‘Nuf’, the English word for fun upside-down. Nuf symbolizes the breakthrough that Yota brings to communication and entertainment. The Yota brand was designed by London based agency 300million.

Yota (Russian: Йота) is the trademark of a Russian multinational telecommunications services provider (primarily high speed mobile broadband, with some video, TV and music services).

Week 4 step 2

 Tabletop without any keyboard                            From a slimmer form factor to new administrator tools, Surface features some exciting changes: 
Slim device. The new hardware is 4 inches thin.
A richer visual experience. With the rich color saturation from a full HD display and a larger screen, Surface offers a compelling, immersive visual experience that draws people in.
A vision-based touch experience. With PixelSense™, Microsoft Surface sees and responds to touch and real world objects.
Touch-enabled from start to finish. With Windows 7 and Surface 2.0, there is no need for a keyboard and mouse for setup and configuration.
New Quick Controls. Venue staff can adjust basic settings like volume, brightness, and input source.
More customization options. An improved configuration utility means you can quickly make changes to background images, configure applications, and modify settings without getting into code.
Easier remote administration. Windows PowerShell scripts are easy to use and create, so Surface can be deployed in an enterprise setting.
Streamlined development for touch. The Microsoft Surface 2.0 platform makes development easier with applications for Windows 7 that run on Windows Touch devices and with enhanced capabilities on the Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface.

By Evan Ackerman

Surface is one of the most intuitive interfaces I’ve ever experienced. It works just like you think it’s supposed to, you don’t even have to concentrate. We played with Paint, using our fingers and hands as brushes, which was (for lack of a better expression) way, way fun. Surface is not touch sensitive; underneath the tabletop are five cameras, a projector, and a Vista computer. The cameras watch for user interaction on the surface, and then control the projection on the underside of the table. Surface identifies objects by looking for a tag, which is a specific combination of white dots on a black background (it’s like a bar code). No RFID involved. As the Microsoft guy says in the demo, it’ll first show up in retail locations here in Las Vegas in the spring, but in 3-5 years you should be able to buy your own… Likely for something over the current $10,000 commercial partner price (but I hope I’m wrong about that). Either way, it’s money well spent, if you ask me.

Week 4 step 1

Having woken up, you get out of bed, and she quickly refuels and compactly gathers . Catching up on cleaning teeth, you can easily find out all the latest news, weather forecasts on an interactive whiteboard. The breakfast is already ready, he was prepared by the robot.
Has much occurred changes. For a long time there are no illnesses and problems with health. 

Nanorobot, entered into a human body, can independently move on blood system and clear it of microbes or arising cancer cages, and blood system — from cholesterol adjournment. He can study, and then and correct characteristics of fabrics and cages.
in the industry have been replaced traditional methods of production assembly of molecular robots of consumer goods directly from the atoms and molecules . Up to the personal synths and copying devices, allows us to produce any object.

Biologists may be "introduced" into a living organism at the atomic level and it became possible and the "restoration" of extinct species and the creation of new types of creatures, including biorobotov.Kosmos finally mastered: a huge army of robots, molecules released in the near-Earth space and prepares it for the settlement of man - makes habitable moon, asteroids, the nearest planet.

There was possible "resettlement" of human intelligence in the computer.
In general life became easier and more comfortable.

Week 3 step 2

A microwave oven, or simply a microwave, is a kitchen appliance that heats food by dielectric heating. This is accomplished by using microwave radiation to heat polarized molecules within the food. This excitation is fairly uniform, leading to food being more evenly heated throughout (except in dense objects) than generally occurs in other cooking techniques.

A laptop (also known as a notebook) is a personal computer designed for mobile use.  A laptop integrates most of the typical components of a desktop computer, including a display, a keyboard, a pointing device (a touchpad, also known as a trackpad, and/or a pointing stick) and speakers into a single unit. A laptop is powered by mains electricity via an AC adapter, and can be used away from an outlet using a rechargeable battery.

A dishwasher is a mechanical device for cleaning dishes and eating utensils.  The mechanical dishwasher cleans by spraying hot water, typically between 55 to 75 °C (130 to 170 °F) at the dishes, with lower temperatures used for delicate items. A mix of water and detergent is used for cleaning purposes, followed by clean water to remove the detergent residue. Some dishwashers have multiple wash and rinse periods within the complete cycle. In some dishwashers, a rinsing aid (also called rinse aid) can be added to the rinse cycle to improve drying and avoid water spots remaining on dry items.

A refrigerator (commonly called a "fridge") is a cooling apparatus. The common household appliance comprises a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump—chemical or mechanical means—to transfer heat from it to the external environment, cooling the contents to a temperature below ambient.  A refrigerator maintains a temperature a few degrees above the freezing point of water. Optimum temperature range for perishable food storage is 3 to 5 °C (37 to 41 °F).

A blowdryer or hairdryer is an electromechanical device designed to blow cool or hot air over wet or damp hair, in order to accelerate the evaporation of water particles and dry the hair. Blowdryers allow to better control the shape and style of hair, by accelerating and controlling the formation of temporary hydrogen bonds inside each strand.

Week 3 step 1

a vacuum cleaner  

a smartphone  

an autopilot 

the  Internet  

a Wi-Fi 

Week 2 step 3

Gadgets of the Past
We sit on the Internet, there are plasma panels in our living rooms, dinners we prepare by means of electric furnaces, both mixers, and food processors … And after all any 15 years ago the people about this all heard nothing all...

Gadgets in the past were perceived by the people as something surprising, fantastic and concerned them on another. 

To difficultly itself to present that all 10 years ago elementary computers were a rarity, and the Internet – something immense and inaccessible. Mobile phones then were only at the high-ranking and indecently rich people, and that phones more than the stationary weighed.

If to return to the past of 30 years ago on back hardly we will find in all the USSR at least some tens computers, but scarce washing machines and refrigerators "Minsks" we will see enough much. And, the mistress then with the big trembling, than today, concerned the technics, after all repair of home appliances because of low qualification of masters and the same deficiency of spare details, was rather difficult and almost impossible process.

Many inventions didn't find applications, or were applied after many year.

The mankind always aspired to improve the life, to make her more more comfortably and to spend as less as possible efforts. Therefore new gadgets will always appear.

Week 2 step 2

Gadgets of the Past

1) MP3 player
2) TV
3) iPod
4) mobile phone
5) radio tape recorder
6) laptop
7) digital camera

Questionnaire

1. How often do you use it?

a) Always b) Sometimes c) Rarely d) Never

2. Do you find it useful?

a) Yes      b) No   c) Sometimes  d)  I don’t know

3. Should it be improved or renewed?

a) Sure b) No use c) Probably d) No, it’s perfect!

4. Would you take it with you if you were on a desert island?

a) Certainly b) Only if I had nothing else

c) No way    d) I’d need it to make friends with aborigines

5. Are there any chances that people will continue to use it in future?

a) 0-25% b) 26-50% c) 51-75% d) 76-100%

 

Week 2 step 1

   Did you ever wonder about lipstick? Well, maybe not, but I did! I hope you find this interesting.
   Various historical records suggest that lipstick origins in ancient Mesopotamia almost 5000 years ago. Lipstick was probably invented by the Egyptians, although it may have been used years before. Evidence has also been found that women in Indus valley civilization applied red color on lips. In ancient Roman civilization, women who belonged to the upper class used lip colors that they manufactured at home.During this time, semi-precious stones were crushed and smeared on the lips as lipstick.
   Furthermore, the ancient Egyptian women squeezed out purple-red color from iodine and bromine, leading to serious diseases. With time, it came to be known as ‘the kiss of death’. It is said that Cleopatra’s lipstick were made from carmine beetles, which when worked with pestle gave a strong red color pigment. This was mixed with ant’s eggs, which provided the base. Apart from this, henna was also one of the preferred substances amongst Egyptians. To provide the shimmer to the lipstick, fish scales were used.
   The credit for developing the first lipstick or the lip color in the form of a stick is given to Abu al-Quasim al-Zahrwai. He belonged to Andalusia area of Spain and is often referred to as father of modern surgery. He created the first lipstick at around 900 A.D. He used wax to form the base to which fragrances were added and then pressed into a mold.
   Today, one can find lipstick of a wide range of shades. Apart from the color choices, there are also lipsticks in the market with special ingredients that are essential for lip care. 

Week 1 Step 2

Having search the net resource I found several definition of the gadget. The first, the gadget this a small technological object (such as a device or an appliance) that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty. Gadgets are invariably considered to be more unusually or cleverly designed than normal technological objects at the time of their invention.The second, the gadget is often small mechanical or electronic device with a practical use but often thought of as a novelty.In my opinion the second definition is better.

Week 1 Step 1 “Gadget” and “gadgeteer”

I'm think the "gadget "and "gadgeteer" this original, innovative technical device. Today, the gadget can take any digital device that is easy to use it is such modern technologies. They have different sizes and created for different purposes. The main purpose is to make our life more comfortable and practical.I hope they are easy to  use.