Category: Technology
What did people do with their time 20 years ago? How did we ever manage without personal computers, the Internet, cell phones, iPods and 24 hour cable news? The technological landscape is vastly different these days and scientist are wondering just what that means for our brains.
According to research done last year by UCLA scientist Dr. Gary Small, daily doses of technology may be altering the way the brain functions, particularly in social skills. He suggests that all that screen time may weaken the brain circuits involved in face-to-face interactions. He is concerned that fundamental social skills like reading facial expressions during a conversation are being compromised.
Small is particularly concerned about what he calls the digital native, those in their twenties and younger who have been “digitally hard-wired since toddlerhood.” As he explained in an Associated Press article, the digital native runs the risk of being socially awkward and isolated by their inability to interpret non-verbal messages from people. He is afraid this may be particularly true in the classroom that still relies on traditional verbal instruction along with interaction with the teacher and other students.
Small argues his case in his book “iBrain: Surviving the Technological Altercation of the Modern Mind.” He admits that his research about whether or not all this technology is changing brain circuitry is new and ongoing.
Other studies, in fact, have taken the opposite tact by seeing positive outcomes for technology users. A MacArthur Foundation study found that teens feel very connected to each other through online social networking. The study allayed some parents’ fears that teenagers are vulnerable to online predators the more time they spend socially on the Internet. “The study found that most teenagers steer clear of dangerous sites and use the Web only for research or to communicate with established friends,” according to an article in the Austin-American Statesman.
Parents who are too protective and prohibit computer use for their teens may be keeping their kids out of the broader social loop. The study found that teenagers move between the online social world and the face-to-face interactions with relative ease, one building on the other.
Dr. Maryanne Wolf of Tufts University thinks technology may even affect how people learn to read. Technology requires users to gather information quickly, rather than the more methodical and sophisticated methods of comprehending regular reading material. She is studying if this rapid information gathering could be changing the normal brain pathways formed when reading. She is particularly curious about the affect on young children as technology becomes a more integral component of modern classrooms.
As with any new information technology, like 50 years ago with the inclusion of television to the average American home, there will be curiosity and controversy. It is certainly hard to imagine how our brains waited for the morning paper or the evening news to hear what was going on in the world around us. It seems like each generation has a quicker learning curve when it comes to the latest technology. That could just be human nature, or it could be the circuitry of the brain changing and adapting to the technologically saturated world in which we live.
Its quite amazing how gadgets continue to evolve these days. Before, watches are only used for letting people know the current time. Later, it evolved into alarms and stop watches. Today, watches have already evolved into high end gadgets. They are already multi-purpose. Take for example GPS watches. These watches do not only provide people with regards to what time is it already, but also helps people calculate the distance they have traveled.
GPS watches use the latest technology called Global Positioning System. GPS calculates the exact position and timing of a subject. This is also the same system used by the military to locate the position of a person. Often, GPS watches are also categorized as sports watches. This is because these watches are being used by sports enthusiasts and athletes in measuring the distance that they have traveled. For instance, bikers would calculate if how long have they already traveled from one point to another.
People who also use to jog are using GPS watches. Often, these GPS watches also come along with a Heart Rate Monitor. Individuals who use these GPS watches with Heart Rate Monitors (HRM) find them very useful in calculating the distance they travel as well as checking their vitals. Aside from calculating distance, GPS watches are also being used by parents who want to keep track of their childrens location. They let their children wear a GPS watch and then keep track of their whereabouts with the use of a tracking device.
It is really amazing how technology keeps on discovering new and enhanced gadgets. Aside from GPS watches, there are also watches that have built in radios, flashlights, lighters, calendars, calculators, chronographs, altimeters, remote controls, and even communication devices. With the constant innovation in technology, expect more amazing gadgets to come that can provide individuals with almost everything they want to know or monitor.
The mobile phone industry has taken the entire world by a storm and seems to grow in size every passing day. With such cut throat competition at its end, every brand is steeped in trying to identify its strengths and simultaneously provide innovative technology to boost up their sales.
The Samsung Galaxy Range was launched almost a year ago and has been diligently added with the latest handsets to keep up its own in the face of intense competition. The range has grown to such numbers that even dedicated Samsung fans do not know which to choose. So let us consider the salient handsets comprising this line and compare and contrast them for better understanding.
The 17500 Galaxy was Samsungs first Android and the first to be launched under the galaxy name. It features 5MP camera with LED flash, GPS, Wi-Fi, 3G and 3.2 Amoled screen. The phone was a great newcomer in the ambitious Android phone market; it still holds its ground quite well. Next up is the second Android phone by Samsung, the I5700 Galaxy Spica. It has 3.2 MP camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, 3G, 3.2 Amoled touch screen and a more equipped Bluetooth than the 17500 Galaxy phone. The third phone is the I5800 Galaxy Apollo which comes with a roughly the same features as the Spica but with the added feature of v2.1 Android Operating System and TouchWiz 2.0. It is also popularly referred to as the Galaxy 3. The I5500 Galaxy 5 was launched at 2010s CommunicAsia trade show along with the Galaxy Apollo but it is lower in its estimations when compared by the latter. It has 2 MP camera, GPS, Wi-Fi and its Android v2.1 with TouchWiz 3.0 is over the top. The I9000 Galaxy S takes the galaxy experience to a whole new level. This is the flagship of the range and with its massive spec sheet and massive screen offers it the massive appeal it rightly deserves. It salient features include 4 AMOLED touch screen with multi-touch and Swype keyboard, Wi-Fi, 3G, HSDPA and HSUPA, GPS, Digital Compass, 5 MP Camera, 8/16 GB Alternative Version and Bluetooth 3.0. All this is topped off with 1 GHz A8 processor, Android v2.1 and TouchWiz 3.0, which makes it one irresistible phone. Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 another Android Phone with 3.5″ touch screen, TouchWiz v3.0 UI, the social hub app, Think Free Office and 32GB expandable memory. A downright stylish phone of this category is the S5570 Galaxy Pop which showcases a 3.14″ touch screen, Android 2.2 operating system, 3MP camera, A-GPS, Quick Office document viewer, Android music & video player, and a 32GB expandable memory. The I8520 Galaxy Beam provides a healthy but not particularly different alternative to the I9000 Galaxy S. In addition the Samsung Galaxy Tab, The Galaxy S2 and the Galaxy S Pro have added new possibilities to the already multidimensional range.
The Samsung Galaxy Price is quiet nominal when compared to its competitive handsets from rival brands which makes all its features all the more attractive.
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Barcode technology has become omnipresent and is being used in every aspect of businesses to prevent errors caused by human intervention, and enhance overall efficiency across applications. Processes like inventory control have seen revolutionary changes since barcode help to track all product details and update inventory levels at all times. Barcodes are a universal feature now and do not attract attention anymore. They are in use in offices and commercial establishments, hospitals and warehouses, hotels, government agencies and all organizations required to keep an inventory of products and services.
Customers and clients seldom stop to consider the working of barcode scanner technology. No one thinks of the meaning of the parallel black and white lines, the light beam flitting across them and how they transmit the same data found on the label. The only certainty in everyone”s mind is the accuracy of the information and the fast pace of transactions.
The rationale behind all this is manner in which barcode technology works. Any item that is barcoded has been identified, and all relevant details about it stored in the system or the host computer. The information coding takes place in a special barcoding language, and it is the job of the barcode scanner to decode that information and present it in a human readable form.
Barcode languages are simple since they contain symbols that are like a string of bars of different sizes, some short, some long, and interspaced with unequal spaces shown in white. Thus it appears as a series and every part of the series stands for a certain number of characters. Special barcode software eases the whole process of storing information and later decoding it.
Hence barcode software is the critical part of barcodes and barcode scanning processes that eases the working of the whole system. Specialist software programmers use barcode software to keep an inventory list of their products. This is accomplished by entering the name of the product, and assigning a unique product identification by generating a barcode for it with the aid of an advanced database system that stores all the product information. This information is the key to all inventory tracking, updating records, and each time the barcode scanner scans the barcode, its details are immediately extracted from this database.
Barcode scanners are designed to read the barcode label with the aid of photo sensors that are fitted inside. The sensors are responsible for deciphering each scanned barcode with its spaces, parallel bars of different length and widths. Then this is matched to the corresponding information in the database.
S.E.A College of Engineering and Technology (SEACET)Bangalore, India at the moment, the best emerging engineering college in India is established in 2007-2008 with the sole motto to develop and offer young, committed and ethical graduates to diverse professional environments, specialized in different disciplines of Engineering and Management.
Sea College of engineering which is now one among the top 30 engineering colleges in Karnataka started in 2007 by offering courses in Computer Science, Electronics and Communication, Information Science and Mechanical Engineering is the Best BE and B Tech colleges in India and is also the Top Placement Colleges. Not many people will be dazzled to hear that top engineering college in India, started by associating the best engineering facilities across south India banged into the list of best engineering colleges in India in a short span.
The infrastructure and the facilities available at S.E.A College of Engineering and Technology has prompted some to rank SEACET as one among the Best BE and engineering colleges in Karnataka, India. For reference see the list of engineering colleges produced by an eminent educationalist in Bangalore Mr. Kumara Reddy.
Top 30 Engineering Colleges in Bangalore
1.R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore
2.M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Tech, Bangalore
3.P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore
4.S.E.A. College of Engineering & Technology, Bangalore
5.Sir M. Visvewsvaraya Institute of Technology, Bangalore
6.B.M.S College of Engineering, Bull Temple Road, Bangalore
7.Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore
8.P.E.S. School of Engineering, Bangalore
9.Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore
10.B.M.S. Institute of Technology, Yelahanka, Bangalore
The Institution apart from strictly adhering to course curriculum of the affiliating University also in the forefront in offering several value based activities / programs, appropriately tailor made to transform and mould the raw and budding members of the Learners Community as fully trained professionals who are directly acceptable by professional environments. Extended Training Activities on advanced software”s relevant to different discipline. Hands-on training on advanced facilities / instruments, periodic visits to professional environments, Lectures / Talks by eminent personalities in the chosen disciplines of Engineering and Management, extensive and value additional type of interactions with professional environments, mentorship, group study schemes, to cit a few are begin implemented and seriously followed so as to profile the much needed value addition to the profiles of the Learners Community. All these helped SEACET in gaining a position in the list of top 20 engineering colleges in Bangalore.
Its is not only among the colleges of Karnataka that S.E.A College of Engineering and Technology topped the list, according to some of the latest ranking lists SEA is one among the top 50 engineering colleges in India. See this list below from a trustable source.
List of Top Engineering colleges in India
1.Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
2.Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
3.Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
4.Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
5.Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
6.Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani
7.Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
8.Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
9.Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
10.College of Engineering , Anna University, Guindy
11.National Institute of Technology Warangal
12.Jadavpur University , Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Calcutta
13.Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
14.Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
15.National Institute of Technology, Trichy
16.National Institute of Technology, Suratkal
17.Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi
18.Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh
19.Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
20.Malviya National Institute of Technology, Bhopal
21.PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
22.International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
23.National Institute of Technology, Calicut
24.Osmania University College of Engineering, Hyderabad
25.College of Engineering , Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam
26.Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala
27.Bengal Engineering and Science University , Shibpur
28.Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur
29.Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
30.Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur
31.Dhirubhai Ambani IICT, Gandhi Nagar
32.Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi
33.Govt. College of Engineering, Pune
34.Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
35.National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra
36.Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute Of Technology, Surat
37.National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
38.Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad
39.R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore
40.National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur
41.College of Engineering, Trivandrum
42.University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore
43.Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai
44.Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
45.Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore
46.SSN College of Engineering, Chennai
47.S.E.A. College of Engineering & Technology, Bangalore
48.IIIT, Allahabad
49.National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
50.SIT, Calcutta
If S.E.A. College of Engineering & Technology continues the work they are doing now, I am sure that with in next five years S.E.A. College of Engineering & Technology, Bangalore would become the best engineering college in Karnataka.