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Innovations of
all Time
The
Superheroes
of techonology
Editor’s Letter,
This is the PG edition so we have
reviews of some very cool gadgets. We
have filled this edition with people who
have made a significant contribution to
the tech industry and are known for
their great inventions. You can also
check the top 9 innovations of
technology. Hope you enjoy this edition.
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Google’s Project ARA
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9 biggest innovations of all times
The innovations which had maximum impact on humans
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Apple iMac (1998)
The first, or rather the last
gadget in the list is the iMac
which with its mind-blowing
design, celebrated the return
of Steve Jobs into Apple.
Sony Walkman (1979)
Before the Walkman,
listening to your own music
involved a plugged-in hi-fi
or a giant boombox on your
shoulder.
Sony AIBO (1999)
With AIBO, Sony demonstrated
that the ideal pet of the future
might well be an intelligent
hunk of metal and plastic.
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Nintendo Game Boy (1989)
In the older days, kids couldn't
wait till they were old enough
to get their first two-wheeler.
Game Boy changed that.
Napster (1999)
While the MP3-friendly media
player Winamp appeared two
years earlier, digital music didn’t
truly take off until peer-to-peer
download service Napster.
Sony Playstation 2 (2000)
Officially the best-selling
console of all time, over the
course of its 12-year lifespan
the PS2 saw more classic
games than the Wembley arch.
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Apple MacBook Air (2008)
The famously revealed laptop
from a manila envelop by
Steve Jobs set the bar for
aesthetics in the laptop battle
and it is still one of the best
contender.
LG G3 (2014)
Where the G3 really shines - that
amazingly sharp 2K display. It's
bigger and sharper than those
on any of its rivals, while fitting
in a similar size body. The first
of its kind.
Apple iPod (2001)
Apple makes existing technology
work where others have failed.
Apple didn’t invent the music
player, but then iPod made it
massive.
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PROJECT ARA - THE LAST SMART PHONE
4 things you need to know about project ara
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Project Ara smartphones are composed of modules
assembled into metal frames.
P
roject Ara is the codename for an initiative by
Google that aims to develop a free, open
hardware platform for creating highly
modular smartphones. The platform will include a
structural frame that holds smartphone modules of
the owner's choice, such as a display, keyboard or an
extra battery. It would allow users to swap out
malfunctioning modules or upgrade individual
modules as innovations emerge, providing longer
lifetime cycles for the handset and potentially
reducing electronic waste. A market pilot for Project
Ara is scheduled for 2015 with a target bill of
materials cost of $50 for a basic grey phone. The
project was originally headed by the Advanced
Technologies and Projects team within Motorola
Mobility while it was a subsidiary of Google.
Although Google had sold Motorola to Lenovo, it is
retaining the project team who will work under the
direction of theAndroid division.
Project ARA isn’t the only gadget
embracing the infinite tweakability
of Modular Design.
It’s an infinitely customizable
phone.
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Think of it as Android for hardware.
Big shift from the current situation.
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It won’t fall apart if you drop
it.
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The project involves some 3D printing
breakthroughs.
Nex band
Tech & fashion usually
combine about as well as a
suit and baseball cap, but
this charm bracelet hopes
to pull it off with module
for fitness tracking and
phone notifications
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PROJECT CHRISTINE
The company showed off a fully
modular, mineral-oil cooled system
that would allow end-users to swap
out components at the push of a
button, drop in new hardware, align
the modules and boom away with
your new system.
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THE SUPER HEROES OF TECH
Photography is just a more
powerful and detailed way of
capturing light. Instead of
capturing it on a single plane,
freezing an image in time and
space, a light-field camera
also captures the direction in
which light was moving.
New Matter makes 3D printing
easy at only $249, wireless
connectivity and an online
store full of cool designs that
you can buy, customize, print,
and share. The weight is
unbelievable only 5 KG.
That’s where Cota by Ossia comes in.
The startup is the brainchild of
physicist Hatem Zeine, who decided
to focus on delivering wireless
power in a way that was
commercially viable, both for largescale industrial applications and for
consumer use
Now we’re not saying astronauts will
ride the Silk Leaf into outer space, but
it could hold the key to long-distance
space travel. Melchiorri has managed
to suspend chloroplasts (the bits of a
leaf that turn the sun’s energy into
oxygen) hardy synthetic foliage that
could survive space and theoretically
provide breathable air above the
range of standard storage tanks. To
infinity…
Dave Hakkens has shown how a good idea combined with strong networking
skills can make big waves without any investment.He created his concept for a
modular mobile phone in 2013. Before he’d even graduated, it had 16 million
views on YouTube and led to collaboration with Motorola’s Project Ara, which
aims to develop an open-source hardware platform for smartphones.
Now we have plug sockets with USB ports in them, there are only really
two main sci-fi dreams that remain: flying cars and hoverboards.
Aerofex’s Aero-X fulfils both, with the added bonus of being a little like
Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder. On terra firma it’s a four-wheeled, twoperson buggy-type vehicle, but in flight it uses downward-facing fans
to levitate up to 10 feet off the ground at up to 45mph.
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The people behind Internet
And how they changed our Lives
We may not be conscious about these people who changed the INTERNET
Father of the Internet
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
The Father of Internet Vint Cerf, together
with Bob Kahn created the TCP/IP suite of
communication protocols- a language
used by computers to talk to each other in
a network. Vint Cerf once said that the
internet is just a mirror of the population
and spam is a side effect of a free service.
Father of Email
Ray Tomlinson
Programmer Ray Tomlinson, the Father of
Email made it possible to exchange messages
between machines indiverse locations;
between universities, across continents, and
oceans. He came up with the “@” symbol
format fore-mail addresses. Today, more than
a billion people around the world type @ sign
every day.
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Inventor of WWW
Tim Berners Lee
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide
Web. He wrote the first web client and
server and designed a way to create links,
or hypertext, amid different pieces of
online information. He now maintains
standards for the web and continues to
refine its design as a director of the World
Wide Web
Birth of eBooks
Michael Hart
Michael Hart started the birth of eBooks and
breaks down the bars of ignorance and
illiteracy. He created the Project Gutenberg
and was considered world's first electronic
library that changed the way we read. The
collection includes public domain works and
copyrighted works with express permission.
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NEYMAR
Created in Corel Draw by
Avdeep Singh
Editor-In-Chief
Mr. S Sriram
Nov 2014
Designer(s)
Abhay Nayar, Avdeep Singh
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