Society

Iphone 4 The new iPhone is an amazing new piece of technology that currently completes the modern technological boom in todays society. As everyone has noticed technology is growing faster than the consumers can buy the products. The new iPhone 4 is so advanced that no other piece of technology can successfully compare. The Apple Appstore keeps the latest and newest applications on the iPhone up to date and running smooth. Som of the common apps keep society in touch in ways that people dreamed of in the past. For example the Facetime app allows users to talk to each other via realtime video. This means that users can call each othere and have a conversation and see each other instead of just hearing the other. This is making people grow closer to each other and making the world a smaller, closer environment. The new Retina Display keeps the iPhone looking fresh and sharp. The display's 960 by 640 resolution has such small megapixels that the human eye physically can not see the megapixels and the picture looks as clear as looking at an actual piece of paper. This allows the Facetime app to feel like the person that you are talking to is physically right next to you. Apple's slogan "An app for everything" stands true. Apple has well over 350,000 apps available for their iPhone. These apps are aimed for businesses, gaming, leisure, news, weather, information gathering, and so much more. These apps keep todays society moving at tomorrows' speed. Online companies can now run their business completely through their phone. Products can be processed ordered and shipped through the iPhone 4. Credit cards can be scanned, and barcodes can be read from an iPhone and then can linked directly to the companies inventory and sales. New apps are allowing people to ditch their old plastic debit and credit cards. The new apps allow for the iPhone to be directly linked to your bank accounts. Wallets and purses can be left at home so the only thing anyone needs to carry on them is their sleek and sexy iPhone.

Motorola Xoom The new Motorola Xoom is a new piece of technology that will help drive the price of the iPad down. I feel that the Xoom will have great reviews but society as a whole will act similarly to tablet as they did to the competitors of the iPod. When the iPod's first real competitor (Dell) came out with the Dell Jukebox with similar features and memory at a lower price the overall population still wanted the iPod. I feel that the tablet is trying to mix the phone and a computer together, but phones are already computers. Sales for the iPad are fairly high and the overal population wants tablets. Hopefully the Xoom by Motorola will bring in new ideas as to how the tablets of the future will be. I understand that in the not so far future most college students will have tablets instead of laptops, but their memory will need to be boosted to at least 100 GB's for me to think about switching. I can understand why businesses would want to switch to a tablet form of computers. Especially in retail and warehouses. All the companies information can be at the employees finger tips at all times. UPS uses a computer system called the DIAD Board and has been using it for a long time. This system has allowed drivers and package handlers to keep in constant contact with each other and their products being delivered. When packages get picked up or delivered the DIAD Board scans the package and instantly changes the inventory. If UPS was to get ahold of a product similar to the Motorola Xoom then deliveries could be made quicker with GPS systems built into the tablet, and higher managers can keep better track of their employees with video conferencing while drivers are out on the road.

Parking Bicycles I am a big biker. I feel that American's in general bike for recreation more than for transportation. As fuel prices continually rise more and more people will be turning towards bicycles to get to and from their destinations. This new Bike parking lot is an awesome invention that here in NJ will most likely not be used in the near future, but in places like some big Asian cities, this new parking lot was probably needed. I will continue to hang my bikes up from my ceiling with a standard J-hook.

Microwaves Almost everyone in contemporary America uses microwaves. Almost all the food eaten in most fastfood restaurants along with diners and some nicer restaurants are reheated in microwaves. Microwaves are extremely cheep and students who live in dorms are asked to bring a microwave to cook all their food. People also like to test what their microwaves are capably of. In this video some young adults take a soda can and fill it with gasoline, then place it in a microwave and turn it on. [|Whacked Out Sports - Playing wWith Fire]. As you can see society loves microwaves, even when it comes to blowing things up.