Apple Company and ratings, Tech Battles

   Apple as we know it is one of the best technology dealers on the planet. But how good is it really? Read this post about apple itself, to figure out who will win, Apple or Samsung.

    So far Apple has been one of the big dogs in the game of ultimate tech. They have sold over 100 products, and have the audience to keep up their game. But most of the time, the products are bought for the fun of it, and now days nobody really minds. Apple's stock rate is a surprising 8 out of the possible 10, according to StockScouter. They are labeled grade C for fundamentals, ownership, and technical. Also, they have grade A in valuation, which are their strengths. On Fortune 500(by CNN), Apple is rated a surprising 17 in America's largest corporations. The company proved its worth after the co-founder Steve Jobs died, and they emerged. But being a 17 is better than their previous score, which was a 35.

   Now with Apple under his control, Tim Cook Apple's CEO has done three mistakes, which you read about here. The company has added new product lines, increasing its sales by alot, nudging the management to announce plans for the firms first dividend since 1995. By doing this, Apple is returning some of the 97.6 billion in cash it had accumulated before to rise again. Apple has doubled its earnings in 2011 compared to 2010, and now it even better. Apple fans and analysts continue to await a long-rumored television set from the gadget-maker(Apple TV).

Thank You For Reading This Post On Apple, And Be Ready To Vote for Apple Or Samsung Next Week!

The Samsung Galaxy Note II

   The Samsung Galaxy Note II is the revolutionary new Samsung touch screen phone by, well obviously you know so I don't have to tell you the creator. The note II has been selling well all around the nation, and the world. In early November, the Korean company announced that they have sold 3 million units. So far been on sale for 5 months, smashing the UK shelves October 1st. Coming to the states last month, spiking it's sale by the numbers. The Note one was originally thought not to sell as well as the previous models, instead exploded into a whole new category, called the "phablet" by some.

   Yes all as crystal clear it seems, the Note 2 is already reeling in  many sales fish, but they manage the surplus. Running with the 5.5 inch screen and Android's 4.1 Jellybean, yeah, definitely another phone by Samsung. A few problems still lie with the Note IIlike it sitting in a proportional space that doesn't even exist, as well with few of an audience. The Galaxy S III itself is big as it is, while the people are still deciding if it even belongs in the phone category. But other wise it should fit in your jeans pocket(assuming that is not tight) and that even though it can't be used single-handed, Apple pointed out that the ratio for single handed usage is completely ignored by all modern Android devices, so the Note II isn't by itself on this one.

Thanksgiving Floats, Behind The Scenes

  It is a huge american tradition to celebrate Thanksgiving, but it wasn't formally introduced until the civil war. In the annual Macy's Thanksgiving parade, hundreds of giant floats of movie characters, cartoon characters, video game characters, etc.. To make these floats, studio designers in Hoboken,NJ make three feet tall models for people at a designing studio, where they make the huge floats that are shown in the parade by Macys. Lots of different tech is used to create these floats, read on to find out.



   
   To make all the balloons for the parade, it takes a year round effort right after the last parade ends. They start making completely different molds with styrofoam blocks, and cut them with hotwire. All details that make the model are  made by hand, or hand-sculpted. After the mold is done, they cover it with hard-co, a fire retardant plastic that gives it a waterproof shell for weather protection. After making a solid mold, the final balloon version is made at a manufacturer called Aero-Star. The balloon is test inflated to check for leaks or tears, so it will last for the approximately 6 hour parade. After all the balloons, actors, celebrities, and other forms of entertainment at the parade are ready to go, the parade starts. 

To watch a video for a shortened version of this post, visit this site.

A Very Useful Item

   You don't have to use a detachable mouse or built in mouse to operate your computer or laptop. The new Thanko Gesture glove mouse is one of the newest techy toys out into the world today that allows you to wirelessly do this. It sends signals through wireless transmissions from itself, to it's receiver, and projects those gestures on the screen of either an Android, PCs, Macs, and Android smart TVs. There are multiple different gestures on this device for you to do, and each one makes a different movement on your screen. For instance, touching your thumb to your index finger makes a mouse click.


   Any user of this mouse must strap it on your left hand, so the proper sensors are in the right position for you to properly use it. Multiple sensors sense your movements to project on your screen. It is connected by USB connector jack, and holds a 12 hour battery life, as well as a 10-15 meter signal radius. This can be charged via the USB connector jack, and sadly is only sold through Thanko in Japan. Do not lose hope however, their is one website from which you can purchase these "air-mice", at http://www.geekstuff4u.com/.                   Hoped you liked this post!

The World's Fastest Supercomputer, In The US

The Titan

    The super computer "Titan" was crowned the fastest computer, weeks after it's debut. The computer was crowned in Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee (US). The one-hundred million dollar machine earned it's spot in the top 500 in the world. The computer has a speed of 17.59 petaflops, and a Cray  XK7 system. It contains of 200 cabinets, 18,688 compute nodes, each one containing high-powered processors, 299,008 cores, and Gemini interconnect. This provides the computer the ability to remotely direct memory access.

    Although it isn't complete, it can reach speeds of 20 petaflops (above) and calculations of 20,000 trillion per second. It can allow scientists from everywhere to research, and more including astrophysics, and unparalleled accuracy. Titan is the first to utilize hybrid architecture, conventional 16-core AMD Operton CPU s  and NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU accelerators. The combination of these two allow the Titan and other future models to overcome power and space limitations. When the Titan is actually complete, it will reach speeds of over 20 petaflops, and calculations of over 20,000 trillion per second. Titan's system is 10 times as fast as the Jaguar computer, and it would still be among the top without the GPU s or CPU s. For more info on this topic, visit this site.

The Presidential Election for 2012 goes to president Obama, who is now serving his 2nd and final term.

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Technology is important in life. People like Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, and Tony Stark (not real).

This man has done it, why can't we. What is holding us back? It is the "I can'ts" that exist in our minds. We rely on technology, we advance in tech over years. This is why we have no iron man armor, no superior technology. This is what we were meant to do. 

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The AISMO Bot

  Yes, I do know that this isn't the latest tech(maybe it is?!) right at this moment, but I thought that this was worth not showing the "latest" tech. I do apologize dearly for my apparent "shut down" last week, and I am ready to show you the new, AISMO robot, the most advanced robot ever built. Honda's AISMO can run, and walk on uneven surfaces, pick up items, and so much more. The robot was first assembled in Japan, this world's current leader of technology, where it went through series of tests that it would go through in the US. It has superior functionalities to it's past models which are shown above. 

  The AISMO robot has capabilities that enable it to pick up a container of liquid, and simply pour it into a container. AISMO is smaller compared to the model before it, and ones before it, showing that it is more compact than the previous AISMO models. The robot can walk up stairs, slopes, open doors, recognize faces of a particular group with it's camera eyes. It can even tell what a specifically chosen item is with the camera eyes. Honda is now currently working on a new model, that can be used to assist the disabled in wheelchairs, etc.. Also, AISMO will soon be able to complete actions that are extremely dangerous to humans. Like cleaning up toxic spills, fight fires, etc.. Here is the video.