| Slow Down!!! | | It seems these days everyone is in a hurry. There is always someplace else they need to be. Can't spend too much time on one thing, because there's something else coming up next. Fast food, fast money, fast cars, fast computers. Even have to hurry up to go on vacation so you can hurry to come back and get back to work. Schedules, appointments, PDA's- Stop Watches. Lives are ruled by the clock. Why can't anyone slow down and enjoy life? You know, stop and smell the roses. What are your thoughts? | |
| | Technology and the olympics | | Every Olympic games leads to the invention of new technologies.....Let us discuss about some of the technologies that were first used in Olympic games....... Some of them are given below:1) 1912 Stockholm Summer Olympics: Electric stop-watches were first used..... Before the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, basic hand held devices were used...... This Olympics saw the replacements of hand held devices by electric stop-watches...... A camera was also introduced to capture early photo finishes.....
2) 1972 Munich Summer Olympics: Electronic timers were first used...
3) 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics: Global Positioninh Technology was used for the first time...... This was used to plot the position of the boats in sailing events.......
4) 2004 Athens Summer Olympics: Cameras that can take two thousand images of the finish line per second were introduced...... Ultra sensitive touch pads too made a mark in the swimming events......
5) 2006 Turin Winter Olympics: For the first time at a winter olympic games, speed skaters wore special transponders on their ankles...... This was used to keep track of their time and position. | |
| | Has mobile taken over on watches, alarm clocks, stop watches? | | After the introduction of mobile in our life we got mobility in calling and some extra features like alarm clock, Time, stop watch, camera do come with mobile. Due to this I am now not using my wrist watch for time. This also happend to my camera, I have the camera which is based on developing and printing of role. so now I am using my mobile as my digitel cam (3.0 megapixel ) .What about you? | |
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