TV Display Screen New Technology

As pictures get bigger, the quality of display screens has not improved as fast. New technology though is repalcing LCD lights with something called "quantum dots".  These quantum dots allow for a bigger gamut of color by producing a clearer red and green in a more efficient way than LED and LCD lights do. The company manufacturing it, 3M , claims that they it is much more cost efficient and they are still able to us LED lights in the manufacturing process. It's interesting to me that the quality of film (i.e. how many frames/sec) is so important, however the technology displaying the film is also as important. If the two are not growing at the same speed the quality will always be less than what it could be. I enjoyed this article since it relates to our recent discussion about image compression, and color depths based on the RGB color set.



Article found at: http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/quantum-dots-are-behind-new-displays/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=061412

I found this video intriguing because of our discussion of digital film, and how making the film is simply a series of samples. However, in in the video they add affects and do advanced film editing. It made me wonder how it is done. I know how picture editing is done, but do you have to add those affects to every single frame? Besides the process, I also am very impressed by the visual affects and how advanced everything has become. Even watching movies these days you see a significant improvement in the quality of the picture and the film makers ability to manipulate the image in a very realistic way. It's impressive and this film acts as a clear evolution of the advancement of digital film.


Article Found: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/14/this-homemade-portal-video-is-pretty-darn-amazing/?grcc=88888Z0ZwdgtZ0Z0Z0Z0Z0

Code Made Easier

Recently, Google released its new Google Blocky which teaches you to write code and do it in a visually simulating way. Blocky is now taking over Google's former code instructor Inventor. They expect it to be even more engaging and easy for users to understand. I find it relates to class in that new programs for teaching code and teaching people to program is becoming increasingly marketable. Users want to know what they are doing more and more. This will be very helpful for someone who may not really know code, or students who are learning it. But I find it cool how Google is expanding even to code, and they are making it friendly for beginners and for advanced programmers.




Article found at: http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/12/3081248/google-blockly-visual-coding

Changing Times

Firefox is partnering with Google to allow it to be the number one search engine operated on Firefox in Russia. It seems to be an interesting move on Firefox's part because the number one search engine in Russia  is Yandex. This article reminded me of the discussion we had in class about the some websites wanting priority when their users request its IP address. it makes me wonder if the companies with the most money will be controlling a lot more of the market share just because they have the power to do so. it should be interesting to see what congress decides.





Article Found @ http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/9/3073851/google-default-search-option-firefox-russia

A 3-D World

The article explains how an imaging company called Artec Group has recently come out with a 3-D imaging  machine for the use of doctors (mostly orthopedics) and for auto companies. They explain that instead of a regular scanner that takes pictures with a laser, this takes pictures digitally on grid system. Since we were discussing digital imaging, I found it interesting how advanced the digitizing process is becoming. The article stated that, "200,000 color pixels every fifteenth of a second. Besides rendering the look of the object, that provides information about shape, since the shading can change with depth". The traditional understanding of color and color coding is becoming changed to a mathematical grid system with each grid being slightly different. With the increasing demand for 3-D, I wouldn't be surprised if something like this really took off, and impacted the traditional form of digitizing. 

Article Found @ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/home-3-d-scans-made-cheap/

.Google, .Sex, .Music...?!?

I know we've talked about IP addresses and expanding the available IP addresses, but i found this article on CNN interesting. Apparently, they are expanding the internet domain system. The article gave the examples of soon to be ".google, .sex, .music"....It's very interesting. They said it is happening because the ICCAN has been preparing this for nearly a decade, and it was finally approved last June. However the article doubts that it will be coming to websites anytime soon. The company is handling a major glitch right now, and continues to update its deadline date. This will really have an interesting effect on what is to come for the history of the internet. I wonder if it will be harder to remember Internet address or not, and if Internet consumers will really like it, or if this is just another way for companies like Google to advertise their websites with a internet domain ending in ".google". It seems like the have way too much legal work to actually get this done quickly though. 

Article found @http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/08/technology/ICANN-domain-expansion/index.htm

Google At It Again

Knowledge graph on Google

Google is taking it a step further with its new search system that brings relevant webpages to you. It helps you cut back on all the information floating around and gives you quick easy answers so you don't have to go searching. In some ways this is great for google, but the webpages that actually provide the information, like Wikipedia might not be so thrilled about the idea because they could lose the traffic to their page. Dosens of  like websites like Wikipedia, Freebase and other open source information page are being used for Google's new venture. However it seems as if they are using the individuals that usually provide data for these websites and using htem for the Knowledge graph. This remeinded me of the concern with the first form of Internet, the ARPAnet, when people were not so willing to give out information to the WWW.  It seems like we are really entering an age of free information. 

Article Found @ http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/8/3071190/google-knowledge-graph-star-trek-computer-john-giannandrea-interview