According to Oxford Dictionaries, the definition of a need is a circumstance in which something is necessary. In my words, a need is something you cannot live with out; for example, food, water, etc.
We need these materials to sustain our life, but in today’s world a “need” has a different definition.

Almost every 6 months a new iphone or a new incredible piece of technology comes out on sale. This is the time where a want becomes a need. We, as teenagers, want the newest technology so bad that it becomes something we can’t live without. Now I have an Iphone and I just recently researched how much these phones are affecting the environment.

It started off with the very first Iphone. Environmentalists opened up the iphone and found that it was full of hazardous chemicals. They confronted Apple, and the company then promised to stop the production of these chemicals in their next product, the Iphone 3. A few months later this product came out and the environmentalists checked this device. They found little to no change in the toxic chemicals that the last iphone contained. Since this problem occured, Apple has now increased the efficiency of their products, they have started recycling their used iphones, and have dialed down on the chemicals that they use. This was a major change that definitely helped our environment.

Having a phone or the newest technology is not a need. It is a definite want. I know some phones are great for communication and really make your day easier, but some phones really hurt our environment. It is our job to choose the most efficient technology and to make sure we know its a want and not a need.

How Much is Google Paying Apple To Be The Search Engine On iPhone, iPad, And Elsewhere?
$1 billion.

Schachter believes Google searches on Apple devices resulted in $1.3 billion in gross revenue. He believes Google has a 75% traffic acquisition cost associated with that revenue. As a result, Google only gets $335 million in net revenue from searches on iOS and Safari.

From the iPhone to the Met: Changing The Way We ‘See’ Art Online

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_goggles_met_76000_artwork.php

Smartphone apps like Google Goggles have fundamentally changed the way we look at art, providing instant information about the work itself.

Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, or the Getty Museum, and download the Google Goggles app for Android or iPhone. Snap a picture of the art that you’re looking at. Goggles will pull up the work of art’s history, bibliography of its creator and perhaps even a story of the collection from the Met’s mobile-optimized website.

Apple Plots Its TV Assault

Apple Inc. is moving forward with its assault on television…working on its own television that relies on wireless streaming technology to access shows, movies and other content. Steve Jobs envisioned building a TV that would be controlled by Apple’s mobile devices.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204791104577106531093742246.html

Google Inc. is trying to enable users to access apps and Internet video on traditional TVs through its Google TV software, which shares some technology with its Android mobile operating system.

IMO, we can get ready to see the iPad enlarged to the size of flat screen TV in the near future… the same way the iPhone was enlarged to become the iPad…cool stuff.

I started researching the various ways that education has been and can be delivered via TV. It occurred to me that I let my kids watch a heck of a lot more TV than I was ever allowed to when I was their age (bad daddy!). But they’re watching TV shows that are educational and stimulate cognitive responses (rationalizing…). Also, because they are accustomed to interacting with games, stories and characters from TV shows via our iPad/iPhones, their approach to TV tends toward the interactive, whereas mine was (and still is!) almost entirely passive. Where all this will lead, both in terms of my research and future developments in “teaching through television,” I’m not quite sure. Stay tuned :)

Karl Lagerfeld was a guest @LeWeb this week, a top flight internet conference held in Paris. It’s a scintillating discussion for all fashion+techy+geeks. Notice how everyone applauds for the fact that he owns 4 iPhones….not for the fact that he owns 300k books in his personal library!

Wolfram Alpha search engine now tracks flight paths, trajectory information. he search engine, which recently began incorporating data from the FAA can now, with a five-minute delay from real-time data, use a flight’s speed, heading and altitude to offer a projection of a plane’s position. A search for ‘flights overhead’ via the Wolfram Alpha web site or app will use your location to pinpoint flights that should be visible to you.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/19/wolfram-alpha-search-engine-now-tracks-flight-paths-trajectory/

Here’s a demo using Siri enabled iPhone

Andrew Ng, who teaches this great course, talks about unsupervised feature learning and deep learning. I’d love to ask him if this is the kind of research and science that made iPhone 5’s “Siri” possible.

Steve Wozniak, in his own way, pays tribute to his old friend, Steve Jobs - by being the first person in line waiting to buy an iPhone 4s. Quite touching.

Amazing story of DIY space exploration using an iPhone and video camera attached to a weather balloon. Stunning photos taken…watch the vid!