SCHOOL
OF TECHNOLOGY AT SHELL POINT
November 9, 2008
PROPOSAL
The residents have formed a steering committee of
three people
CURRENT AREAS OF WIDGET AND GADGET TECHNOLOGY (see
footnote)*
The area of widgets and gadgets technology is
expanding at a tremendous rate. It appears that a new one comes to market every
month. Below is an inventory of the widgets and gadgets as of this date. Note:
This inventory of widgets and gadgets excludes the computer environment, but
there is getting to be a fine line between some of them like the netbooks.
Netbooks are very small Notebook (laptop) computers.
TELEPHONE
ANALOG
– landline from the telephone company
tools = Desk sets and portable handsets
Hand set gadgets –hearing assistants, big buttons, speed dial
DIGITAL -
VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) ie Vonage/Telex
Video phone (skype)
CELL
PHONES
BASIC – just the basics – ie jitterbug
TEXT MESSAGING –SMS/KEYBD ** (see foot note)
SMART PHONES (3rd generation)
email/internet access/GPS – ie i-Phone
+ others
TELEVISION
High
Definition TV (video)
Surround sound (audio)
DVR (Digital Video Recorder) ie:
TiVo or Sony
OTHER
DIGITAL PICTURE FRAME
perfect companion to digital cameras
perfect companion to digital darkroom
perfect companion to albums
Digital audio recorder
for memoirs/journalizing (now also a telephone attachment)
VIDEO
GAMES (not what is has been in the past) – Nintendo is
the “tool”
DISPLAY
OF A NIDENDO –DS
HAND HELD – Nintendo DS
SOFTWARE
1.Brain age
2 Brain age 2
3. Flash focus
4. Big Brain Academy
DISPLAY
OF THE BIG BRAIN ACADEMY SOFTWARE
SYSTEM CONSOLE - Wii – attaches to home TV –
Big Brain Academy
SPORTS – Bowling/Tennis/Golf/Baseball/Boxing
PLAY – T-Tennis/Pool/Fishing/Skeet
FIT – Balance
E-BOOKS
– Kindle – Amazon’s wireless book reader:
www.amazon.com
ADAPTIVE
TECNOLOY – Widgets that accommodate physical and
mental disabilities
++++ ++++ ++++
·
Widget may refer to:
·
A gadget
is a small [1] technological object (such as a device (tool) or an appliance)
that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty. Gadgets
are invariably considered to be more unusually or cleverly designed than normal
technology at the time of their invention. Gadgets are sometimes also referred
to as gizmos.
Tool, Widget, Gadget, or Device
Marshall McLuhan famously
said "We shape our tools. And then our tools shape us." McLuhan was
referring to the fact that our social practices co-evolve with our use of new
tools and the refinements we make to existing tools.
** Short
Message Service (SMS)
is a communications protocol allowing the
interchange of short text messages between mobile
telephone devices. SMS text messaging is the most widely used data
application on the planet, with 2.4 billion active users, or 74% of all mobile
phone subscribers sending and receiving text messages on their phones.[citation needed] The SMS
technology has facilitated the development and growth of text
messaging. The connection between the phenomenon of text messaging and the
underlying technology is so great that in parts of the world the term
"SMS" is used as a synonym for a text message or the act of sending a
text message, even when a different protocol is being used.
Source www.wikipedia.org
Filed in School of Tech folder titled SOFTATSP
(school of tech at shell point)
