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IS TECHNOLOGY NECESSITY OR LUXURY?
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Table of Contents New iPhone 6 Released!.................................................................. 3 Robot Cleaner: Necessity vs. Luxury?........................................... 4 Communication Technology.......................................................... 7 A Brand New Way To Use Your Credit Card: Necessity or Luxury?.............................................................................................. 8 Everything About iPad...................................................................10 Necessity or Luxury?.......................................................................13 Technology In Fashion...................................................................14 Improvement Of Technology And Bionic Suit...........................16 Everything About Smart Phone....................................................18 Importance Of Technology............................................................20 iPads In School.................................................................................21 Industrial Machine..........................................................................22 Smartphone......................................................................................23 Biotechnology: Are GMOs Really Safe?.......................................24 $100 Laptop......................................................................................26
ROBOT CLEANER: D
irt Dog is a circle-shape cleaning machine that cleans the floor. It made our lives better by replacing robots to do hard labour. This machine has a lot of advantages. First, operating the Dirt Dog is also very easy. There are two ways to operate it. One is using the remote control and one is just an automatic cleaner. The remote control one is using the remote control else rather than cleaning. However, to say the direction. There’s a laser attached to the remote and the is it really necessary? Also, is it Dirt Dog will follow the laser point worthy to spend money on that? and clean the floor. This funcAs you can already see now, there are a lot of discussions of whether tion will make cleaning the house much more fun and even kids can the Dirt Dog is a necessity or help their parents for cleaning. For luxury.
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he Dirt Dog or Robot Cleaner had been invented for cleaning the floors. Now, the technology has improved so much and is very common in the world that it is even used in the cleaning, so people can live an easier life. People think cleaning the house is actually a waste of time and is very hard labour, therefore the inventors invented this very surprising and ingenious device. You just have to leave it in the house and it automatically cleans the room. It saves a lot of people’s time and allows them to be doing something
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the automatic one, you just have to turn it on and leave it on the floor and it will clean the floor by itself. So that’s all you need to do. Furthermore, this machine helps us to save our valuable time. From now on with this Dirt Dog, you won’t have to bother cleaning your room floor. Instead using your precious time on cleaning, you can do something else. You can even clean the house while you are away. In addition, the vacuum is very strong so it is very effective when cleaning. It can hoover up all the dust. Moreover, people don’t have to worry about this machine falling off down the stairs or bumping to furniture, because it will automatically turn away if it meets furniture or a stairs. So it will not fall down or get stuck on the furniture. Lastly, this machine can go under the furniture where we can’t reach so this machine is very useful and effective at cleaning. Therefore the
dirt dog provides easier and convenient life to us.
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owever, even this machine is very useful and helpful, it has some shortcomings. Firstly, it is very expensive. So not everyone can afford. The lowest price is $ 150 and the highest is over $ 1000. Even the low quality one is also expensive. Therefore although it is very effective and convenient, if every people can’t afford to use it, it is valueless. So the dirt dog is not economically friendly. Moreover, some people brought up the question that “is it worth to spend that much money on the machine for cleaning the floor?” The answers can be varying according to each people’s perspective. Some people might say it is waste of money if you are spending so much for only cleaning but also, some peo-
ple might say that much money spend is worth it because nothing can ever return the time and we can not buy time. Once the time is gone, it is gone forever. Therefore the answer will be different for each person since they all have different ways of thinking. Secondly, it is runs by batteries and runs out of battery very fast. Also, if it is out of battery for a long time, the next time you charge it, the amount of battery that this machine can hold will be less. However, most dirt dogs can charge themselves automatically. In addition, the dirt dogs are very small. Small can be an advantage but also can be disadvantage. If it is too small, there will be smaller space to store the dust and you might have to use a lot of time for emptying the machine frequently. So this can be very annoying and bother people a lot. Moreover, when you use them, you have to remove some things on the floor that can damage the robot such as power cords, papers, other things that is big which cause problem during sucking dusts for the machine. Furthermore, it can also bring some bad effect to us in the future. Technology is now very developed so every people want to live the world easily by using the technology to do things such as cooking, cleaning, driving, etc. And they will rely and be dependent on the technology. But if people start to
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do that, in the near future, the movie called “Wall E” and “The Lorax” we’ve seen will become reality soon. Furthermore, people can lose jobs because the robots are replacing them, which can cause severe economical issues for labourers in third world countries. Therefore although there are a lot of advantages about this robot cleaner, as all things do, there are also some shortcomings and factors to improve.
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s you have read, there are endless discussions of “does the dirt dog a necessity or luxury”.
In my personal opinion, I think it is luxury, because although this machine is very creative and helpful product, it still have quite high price. Also I believe that using energies for those little things just to live life easier, I think it is actually wasting our energy. So there are many disadvantages of the dirt dog, at the same time, we all have to admit that it is very helpful, saves our time, and makes our life easier. Therefore buying a new dirt dog can be a very exciting and attractive. But just make sure, you should think why you are buying it and consider the pros and cons about this machine.
Interview
of People who actually Has an Experience Of Using the Dirt Dog:
“I have a dirt dog at home. Although it can help us cleaning the household, it’s very slow, since when it bumps to something, it turns little by little. And sometimes it can stuck in the carpet and if we don’t move it, it will catch a fire. So we haven’t used it very long” - Mrs. P. Linden “ Dirt Dog was good but just… when it bumps to a wall or any furniture, it take a really long time to turn around. Moreover, since the dirt dog is a shape of circle, it can’t clean the corners.” - Sarah Ledwid “When there’s people inside the house, you can’t really use it because it’s very noisy. But it’s very convenience when you are outside the house because it actually cleans the house very well. So it saves our time. We now can clean the house when we are out. But when it stuck on a obstacles, you can hear very loud noise.” - Jung Sang Yun
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The weakness of the communication technology is that can be used by criminal, drug seller, ommunication techweapon trader or state secret nology is one of the most imcan be revealed by some bad portant technology in these people. They can also use this days, it’s because now days there technology to put virus in others are many business man who computer or other devices and trade things with other people can hack others things. Also can or having invest from other use this technology for advertiscompany, so they need commuing things illegally such as callnication technology a lot. ing people and say some things programs to communicate with that have been recorded can also Communicating technology other people, for example we send some spam messages to advanced a lot than before. have things like Skype, We chat you which is very annoying. Before if they try to communior more other things. These pro- So I think communication techcate with other countries king grams can send message easily nology is necessity because as I or people who is far away they and also can do video call funcsent letter or go to that place tion, so that some family who and it was very hard and it took stay far away can see each other. long time also. If they used birds And you don’t need to pay, its to send the letter, they have to free, you only need Wi-Fi to use said, it helped us a lot in many train their birds very well to use these. different ways, but some bad bird to send the letters. If they people use it in bad ways too. use their servant or postman it took long time and they also have to pay for them, and it was e also use this technolalso hard to give ogy at education. At school, for the letter to example our school uses the correct places program called ‘edmodo. Written by Sang Yun Jung before. com’. Teachers use this easily or have a call. Electronic devices are also very comfortable to use, smart phones or laptops. We can carry them everywhere. We also have many
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program to tell the students homework and do the quiz too. It also tells us what to study at test too.
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A Brand New Way To Use M Your Credit Card: Necessity or Luxury? “As a person who have used the mobile wallet, i think it it very convinient and it’s also very easy and simple to use! I think this technology is very groundbreaking and a very interesting new way to use the credit card!” -Parson Brown
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bile wallet is a app on the phone that can pay using very time when you go to shopping you credit card, debit card, normally use credit card, key fobs, smart card or and you can loss or even other devices that uses get hacked or what ever, radio-frequency identifibut now there is some kind of credit card on the phones or some smartphones for example apple, samsung and more it is called mobile wallet or you can call it a Contactless debit card. The mo-
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cation for making secure payments, it is just like a moving bank that you can bring everyday to any where you wanted.
obile payment has been used in different ways all over the world, at 2008 it combined a lot of payments and projected to reach more than $600B by 2013 globally. All you have to do is to scan your phone with the app open and put it above the POS and it will take the money off your card and then the payment is done. But the problem is that is it really necessity or luxury. There will be 1 out of 5 people is using mobile wallet. something bad is that if the payment is not clear it will become a dominant. It can not get hacked easily by some hackers, it has numbers of security features. It runs over the same chip and PIN network as normal credit and debit card transaction. PIN is the password you use when you use with the POS, and the chip is the little
piece of golden thing on the credit cards, so the contact-less debit card is very secured. The mobile wallet/contactless debit card pay by choose your card you are going to use, and then you scan on the kind of POS, then you enter your PIN and then the check will be automatically pay through your card. Some people thinks that the wallet is good, here is some opinions from some peoples, some people thinks that the options are too limited and confusing, some people thinks that it has security fears. On the other side, some people thinks that it is good because it is more faster
and don’t need to open the wallet to get a card, also most people thinks that you bring your cellphone but you don’t really bring your wallet every time. So the wallet is easy to bring with you, It can carry more amount if money and quiet safe and it is also quick and easy to pay. In my class there was 46.6 percent of people think that mobile wallet is necessity and 53.3 percent of people think that the mobile wallet is luxury.
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Everything About iPad How long do you think you will be able to go without your electronic devices? These days laptops, computers, smartphones are everywhere in our lives. Lots of people have their devices with them all the time and might not be able to go without it for a long time. These devices have almost become one of our daily needs. Most of us use them every day to go on the internet, chat with friends, listen to music, take photos, we do these all the time. These devices have changed the way we live.
iPads
first not very many people liked it but when they actually held it they thought it was awesome. Ipads are like an electronic book but you can also listen to music, play games, or work on it.
ing time. Like certain iOS devices, the iPad can be “jailbroken�, depending on which version of iOS it is running, thus allowing applications and programs that are not authorized by Apple to run on the device. Once it is jailbroken, users are able to download many applications One of the benefits of ipads are previously unavailable through that they can help us in educa- the App Store like illegally pition. You can download elecrated applications.The use of iptronic books or other programs ads in a long period of time will that can be used in our learning. harm our eyes a lot. The damage You can also use ipads to work of watching an ipad for half an on some programs, or just for hour is equal to the damage of listening to music. They are also watching tv for a whole hour. used by business people. One of the advantages of the Apple iPad is that it is easy to use and navigate. You can learn how to Some companies are adopting use it very fast. You can also use iPads in their business offices by facetime to communicate with distributing or making available friends and share what you are iPads to employees. They use it doing or have a video talk with in their work. The iPad also has them. Another thing is that ipad several uses in the classroom, is portable and you can take it and has been praised as a valuwith you all the time. EReader able tool for homeschooling. is a very useful electronic book Soon after the iPad was released, reader and you can read any it was reported that 81% of the books you can find. Siri is very top book apps were for children. cool as you can just talk to your The iPad has also been called a ipad and give commands easuseful tool to help children with ily without having actually to autism learn how to communimove. cate and socialize more easily.
iPads Benefits
The first ipads have been brought to us in 2010 by Apple. The first iPad was released on April 3, 2010; the most recent iPad models, the iPad Air and second generation iPad Mini, were revealed on October 22, 2013 and went on sale November 1, 2013, and November 12, 2013. 1st generation: April 3, 2010 , 2nd generation: March 11, 2011 (United States), March 25, 2011 (International), 3rd generation: March 16, 2012, 4th generation & Mini 1st generation: November 2, 2012, Air: November 1, 2013, Mini 2: November 12, 2013, Air 2 & Mini 3: October 22, 2014. There have been six versions of the iPadand Some people would just use ipads for playing games and wastthree versions of ipad mini. At
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Necessity or Luxury? “What do you think about technology? Is it necessity or luxury? I would say technology used to be a luxury, but has become a necessity.” -The Author of This Article, Henry Lee
Necessity
1. The development of tech-
3. Technology makes the
whole worlds smaller. nology causes the development For example, people get closer reof knowledge lationship. Call with other person For example, in the past there weren’t any cell phones or computers. People just relied on books and teachers so much. Also the knowledge was limited. But now people can also get information from computers and cell phones. And our knowledge is more improved and widely used.
to use cell phone, use messenger we can do chatting with other person. These are makes people and people’s relationship very closer.
2. Technology helps our edu-
For example, if we want to by computer or cell phone, these are too expensive for normal people to buy. So poor people can not buy computer and cell phone and sometimes we don’t need that much developed technology. In September 2014 iPhone 6 started to sell. But I thought I don’t need it because I have cell phone already and my cell phone is able to use it yet and I am enough about my cell phone. Like me in world some people will not need iPhone 6.
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For example, we can use computer technology to do online lessons anytime we want. And we can use electronic dictionary when we want to know about new words. Finally we can use for homework and we can get information much faster by using computer then by using books.
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Luxury
1. Sometimes people’s need
doesn’t rich the high level of technology
make a weapon. Then other countries will keep strict watch about that country. Also there are hackers. If the technology develops very much, then hackers will do hacking to get money from other people. People are going to lazy. If I located far from my parents then I have to go to my parents sometimes but some people are lazy so they will just call to them instead of meet them.
3. Rich poor gap
If in future people make a lot of working robots. Then we will be hard to work and earn money. Robots are strong, smart, don’t need money etc... So company boss will use working robots instead of human workers. We will get hard to 2. Go to further relationship earn money also we will poor if we Technology makes people to are not boss in future. It is not only get closer relationship but also our life it is effects about commutechnology makes people to go nity. In community the problem will be about working. further relation ship. For example, to use technology
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change its shape. This was first invented in 2007.
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unique by wearing those things. Many famous singers and models wear those cloths for special days. Even not with cloth, we also have for bags, umbrellas, shoes, glasses, and jackets. There is a bag with TV, so that we can watch TV programs when we have our bags. But the disadvantage of that is it would be really heavy, because the TV is actuon the other hand, people say ally inside the bag. For shoes, that it is just a waste of money, we have a tiny TV attached to on’t you want to wear because even they make it, our shoe. For umbrellas, we can shiny, beautiful, wonderful and people wouldn’t be able to buy watch a YouTube video in the cool clothes? People don’t use it because it would be too exrain; the screen is shown at the technology only for computpensive for normal people. How water-repellent cloth. Also we ers, we also use technology for about you? Do you agree with it have some special glasses for fashion. There are lots and lots or not? watching videos. Like this, there of Technology fashion that had is lots of invention of Technolbeen invented. It can be an adogy FOR FASHION. There is vantage, but also disadvantage. another invention, not shining Some people think that technolnor watching TV or videos. echnology in fashion ogy in fashion brings the coolThere is a transformer clothes. is we use technology for our ness of the person, and it makes clothes, accessories… It can When we click on the button, person look more unique. But make the person more cool and and then the cloths will move,
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hen, who created this wonderful fashion? A Chinese designer called ‘Vega Wang’, she participate in The Creators Project, to create this EL collection (Technology in Fashion). She wanted to show audience a visual exhibition, so she borrowed an idea from UFO, and many production companies from Hangzhou helped them to complete the exhibition. She said the inspiration for those collections comes from the idea of universe, and its title is called ‘Alpha Lyrae’. It is called ‘Alpha Lyrae’ because the name Vega is one of the common names for Alpha Lyrae, so she always felt a strong connection with this name. Also, Lyra is goddess of weaving. So since she worked with fashion, she always wanted to name a collection after her. Vega wanted to print patterns of nebula, which is a cloud of dust and gas, which produce new stars, in space, exactly onto the fabric. But then she noticed the best way to separate light and cloth was using materials with white and clean surfaces, and combining that with *EL material that has a blue glow on it that looks unusual, like coming from future. They had a sheet of EL paper, and its basic color is blue. They also have some sheets that animations are printed.
They are animated like stars and *EL: EL is a shortened word of electroluminescence, is thin as paper, clouds when people turn on. They first move the design they flexible and environmentally safe. have into Al on the computer, and then people can cut the sheets according to Vega’s design. Each clothes have a controller, and it has the animations and the programming.
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Written by Grace Lee
ike this, technology is not only for computers it is also for fashion. If you thought technology was only for computers or other cool things that is not related to fashion, maybe this is the time you could think about it.
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echnology is now being controversial for its identity. Some people say that technology is a necessity, but the others say that it is a luxury.
Improvement Of Technology And Bionic Suit
Based on a survey on Taihu International School M2-3 students, 100% said that technology is a necessity because of various reasons. All of them said that the technology is necessity because we could not have achieved such a convenient life like this if we didn’t have technology.
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ome said that the technology is a necessity because everything in our world is made and developed by technology. I think that technology is a necessity. I saw some videos showing examples of things that are created and developed by
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technology. Technology bionic suit, helped disamade our lives improve bled woman to finish the a lot more and gave hope whole marathon course. to a lot of people. The bionic suit has developed a lot too. The or example, a wear- existing bionic suit was able robot, which helps using a terrible electric implant to make spinal disabled to walk called
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the bionic suit. It would time past. change my whole life, allowing me to achieve a better quality of life.
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Written by Jake Kim
he merit of technology is that it can help other people to achieve a better life, but there are also negatives. Some criminals can abuse it for bad use. Some can use internet to hack others to get private information and money from them. cord and brain to work together. It made patients Also, they can use email able to walk however, but systems to send blackneeded to endure a ter- mail or advertise various junk products. It can be rible damage. The new used to commit crimes if bionic suit has solved not used properly. that problem. It is not connecting to patient’s nerve or muscle and does In conclusion, I think that the technology is not use any electrical impulse. The technology the necessity. It has more merit than negatives. For has made the existing example, the invention product be affordable. of bionic suit has given physically disabled paIf I were that patient who couldn’t move free- tients a chance to move. ly, I would really appreci- Also, the bionic suit itself has also developed as ate the development of
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Everything About Smart Phone
Do you know the feeling when you go out and you realize that you left your phone in your house? Some might have a serious problem without the Smartphone. Smartphone have become a vital part of our human body and without them we feel like only a half person. Most of us use our Smartphone every day, to surf the internet and check emails, manage calendars, listen to music, play games, watch videos, take photos, read the news, and write text messages. Now all of these can be done on a single devices. If you think back some few years ago, some of these tasks were not even possible. Consequently, Smartphone have changed the way we live.
What is Smartphone?
In today’s society it is odd to see a person without a Smartphone. Smartphone have broadened A Smartphone is a mobile our communication from a phone built on a mobile opersimple phone call, to being able ating system that can perform FACEIME gauge the people’s remany of the same functions as action real time no matter how a computer. It has been 7 years far away they are. In this day since Steve Jobs introduced the and age social media is a drivworld in. Also, it has been many ing force in communications. years since Samsung invented Smartphone’s allow you to take Galaxy. Because of the perthis social media such as Face son who made Smartphone in book and Twitter, and put it 21st century if you do not have right to the palm of your hand. Smartphone you cannot communicate with others.
How do Smartphone affect our lives in a positive way?
Ways Smartphone affect our life positive way -Ease of using applications -Communication made easier -Ability to learn new thing -Social media in the palm of your hand
How have Smartphone negatively affected our society?
The main reason Smartphone’s are seen to be is they cause people to be oblivious to their surroundings. In public you can look around and see so many people absorbed by their Smartphone that they even didn’t care
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what’s going around them. They are also causing children spending to spend less time outside and more time indoors on Face book, texting, Or instant messaging. When we asked questions, we can think about how we can find the answer on the internet rather than thinking about actual question and answering it ourselves. We are constantly connected and expected to have a mobile phone with us all the time.
How Smartphone negatively affect the society
Composition Of Smartphone Users
Is Smartphone Necessity?
-Cause people to be oblivious to their surrounding -Business leaving the workspace -Family and social relationships are being oppressed -Not using our brains and getting lazier
Smartphone Addiction
-70% people check their Smartphone within an hour of waking up -56% check their phone within an hour going to sleep -48% check over the weekend -51% check continuously during vocation -44% said they would experience “a great deal of anxiety” if they lost their phone and couldn’t replace it for a week. I did a survey to my classmates whether smartphone is necessity
or luxury. Most of classmates in our class think Smartphone is a necessity to have with. Today 20% of adolescent are addicted with Smartphone and that’s a big problem in the world. It affected people’s surrounding and relationships. What would happen if all the people are addicted with Smartphone? I think it’s time
to think how does Smartphone affect your life? And look back your surroundings and relationships. In my personal opinion Smartphone is a luxury. Before you buy Smartphone consider why you are buying these for.
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iPads In School
T Importance Of Technology
echnology is the very important for the
whole world. Tech can help many people to live more easier.
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hink about there are no tech in all world. I think all the people will get panic. People use tech for making things. Telephone, too find something and etc. There are many good things about tech and bad things about tech, first tech can help many peo-
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ple. As I said it. If there is no technology we have to go for somewhere and
talk to him. But if there is tech we can talk with telephone. Internet can help us. We can find.
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nd because of tech. there are many upgrade medical skill, but in bad about tech is technology can destroy the environment easily and thing tech there can be many war like nuclear. Written by Jae Hee Kwon
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“Have you ever been bored at school, no? Neither do I The end Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaah just joking. If you had, your school needs some ipads.”
ccording to some articles there are some schools that use ipads as a notebook for all the subjects they have instead of breaking their backs with giant backpacks that weigh 50 kg from books. Having ipads in school has some benefits like you don’t have to carry a giant bag of who knows how many kg of books, it is lighter and an easier and more organized system, but some people have commented that ipads are also a distraction for students, instead of paying attention and socializing they are distracted playing a game or chatting with someone. But according to another article a mother wrote about her son with autism, the ipad has a system called siri which has been the best friend to the kid because siri is a voice recognition system that helps you with the actions you do in your ipad or iphone instead of doing it yourself and also it tells you things like the weather or other things you don’t know because the kid can get obsessed with something and people can get annoyed so siri which is as a system that doesn’t get annoyed can help the
kid to talk with someone without it getting annoyed.
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pads also work a search engine instead of causing trouble by booking the computer lab, they can do it by their selves in their classrooms, but according to a page there is a comment from someone that the children cant use their personal information in the ipad if they have to be sharing it with other kids. To solve this, kids could bring their own ipads so the other kids can use their personal information on the ipads. Great content viewer, the Ipad is the perfect mobile device for viewing content. It really is a great way to experience the web, watch podcasts and videos, read books, and do research. Fast and easy to use the touch interface and app system on the Ipad makes it easy to access learning tools. It’s “on” instantly, and the apps open just as fast. It’s simple and easy, perfect for even younger students. Many schools find the iPad is just too expensive. One solution to ease some of the financial
burden would be to allow BYOD or even for schools to purchase the cheaper iPad mini instead. These are the photos of students with iPads in the school. The words in the iPad shows what they learn with iPads in school.
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“Is technology necessity or luxury?” Technology is necessity. Because if we don’t have technology, our life can’t be developed. In school, if we don’t have technology, it’s hard to study. In survey, 14 students out of 14 students (100%) agree that technology is necessity. There were various reasons, mostly the answer was: If we don’t have technology, our life couldn’t be developed.
“Are machines necessity or luxury?” Machines make our life comfortable. People have limited power to do something, but machines don’t stop if people gives electricity or fuel to them. Machine can do everything that humans can’t do. When there’s a disaster, some places are too small that people can’t pass through, so rescue rangers use a small machine that can pass through the obstruction. When terror, rescue rangers used a rescue machine to rescue people in the building.
time to make. So factory uses machine to make, but people checks final one.
Disadvantage for using maIf society keep starts using chine: If there’s an error, before machine to work, people will managers knows, machine be losing their jobs. Because in keeps doing same thing over factory, machines are faster than and over. Before machines start something, it needs a hard prohumans, more accurate than humans, and humans works for graming words has to submit in to them. If people depend on limited time because they get tired, but machines can work machine too much, a machine for unlimited time. If there’s no will take human jobs. machines in a factory, people need to work it all by their hand, In conclusion, technology is so it will take a lot of time to fin- necessity. Technology has more ish one work, and factory needs advantages than disadvantages. By technology, it helped to to pay much than average paydevelop our lives, and ment, so many factory mostly machines have uses the machine, and developed managers for human to making something for Advantage for using factory, and it machines: They are was more acfaster than humans so curate and faster they can do or finthan human. ish something faster Therefore I bethan humans, also machines are more lieve technology is a necessity.
accuIn factory, machine mostly uses rate than humans. Humans to make something. But if peohave limited power to do, but ple makes it, it takes very long machine can do for unlimited.
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Managers don’t need to pay machine.
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ow days, the most common electronic device is Smartphone. The definition of Smartphone is a mobile phone with multiple functions such as document work, mp3, playing game, etc. The difference between feature phones and Smartphone is downloading applications or not. It means Feature phones can only use functions that has, but Smartphone can download applications so you can add or delete the functions. The major companies that produce Smartphone are ‘Apple’ and ‘Samsung’. These companies have the most influence in the world market. Most of people say ‘Apple produced the FIRST Smartphone in the world’. But it’s wrong. The first Smartphone is ‘IBM Simon personal communicator’, which is made in 1992. This Smartphone was the first, but it didn’t become popular. In 2007, ‘Iphone’ has released. It is developed from ‘Ipod’, which is mp3 player. So we know as the ‘Iphone’ is the first Smartphone ever.
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he MOST different part of Smartphone from feature phone is application. You can down-
load or delete application as you want, which means you can fill your Smartphone with your favorite applications. The advantages of Smartphone are accessing to Internet from anywhere, spend time quickly by playing games, listening to music, using SNS (Social Network Service) for quick communication, etc.
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ut there are also disadvantages. It may cause myopia (hard to see things from far distance), forward head posture, Smartphone addiction, cutting off offline communication, etc.
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Now days, we are using Smartphone a lot. By SNS, we can communicate each other more easily, by playing games and listen to music, we can spend our time more fun. But if we use too much, it causes myopia, forward head posture and more diseases. So we should use Smartphone wisely, so that we can use our Smartphone well.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY: ARE GMOs REALLY SAFE?
ver the years scientists have been experimenting with altering the genetic material of living organisms using genetic engineering techniques. Some organisms that have been genetically altered or modified include insects, plants, fish, mammals and even microorganisms such as bacteria and yeast. These are the main source of genetically modified foods, they are also widely used in scientific research and to produce goods other than food. GMOs have become quite common around the world, particularly in North Amer-
ica. As claimed by by the USDA, it is approximated that GMOs are now present in more than 80% of packaged products in the standard American or Canadian grocery store. The most common GM crops include alfalfa, canola, corn, cotton, papaya, sugar beets, zucchini and yellow summer squash. The majority of developed nations around the world do not consider GMOs to be safe. In more than 60 countries around the world, including Australia, Japan and all countries of the European Union, there are significant restrictions or bans on the production and sale of
GMOs. In the United States, the government has approved of GMOs based on studies done by the same corporations that created them and profit from their sales. More and more Americans have started to take matters into their own hands and making the decision to opt out of the GMO experiment. As a result, genetically engineered crops have steadily spread to certain European countries and many countries in Asia. become But are GMOs really safe for human consumption and bodily health?
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tions done by the studies by the Institute for Responsible Technology the AAEM (American Academy of Environmental Medicine) advises doctors to prescribe nonGMO diets for all patients. They cite animal investigations showing organ damage, gastrointestinal (relating to
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the stomach and intestines.) and immune system disorders, accelerated aging, and infertility. Human studies reveal genetically modified foods can leave residue behind inside our bodies, which could possibly cause problems in the long run. For example, genes that have been inserted into genetically modified soy can transfer into the DNA of bacteria living inside of us.It is also been proved that the toxic insecticide produced by GM corn was found in the blood of pregnant women and their unborn children. Several health problems have increased after GM crops were introduced in 1996. The percentage of Americans with three or more chronic illnesses has spiked from 7% to 13% in just 8 years; food allergies increased dramatically, and disorders such as autism, reproductive disorders, digestive problems, and others are continuing to rise.
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esides having many negative effects on human health GMOs are also harmful towards the environment. According to the IRT, herbicides used on GM crops can harm birds, insects, amphibians, marine ecosystems, and soil organisms. They diminish biodiversity, pollute our water resources and are very unsustainable this has a tremendous impact on our environment. Certain herbicides have been shown to cause birth defects in amphibians, embryonic deaths, endocrine disruptions, and organ damage in animals even at very small doses. More and more GM crops has also
increase week tolerance to herbicide, only pushing people to attempt and use more and more herbicides or pesticides that potentially harm our environment.
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ow that you know all these facts about GM food, the next time you go to a grocery or super market, think twice before you pick any food up. Are the foods you’re buying contributing to bad health and bodily problems?
Written by Ruoming Xin
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$100 Laptop
tive, Craig Barrett, said that “People that buy 100$ laptop, can only get 100$ information.” 100$ information means really low and bad and not enough information. So Nicholas Negroponte said “Then, I will make this laptop price 50$.” So this education technology becomes more complicated and complicated.
game or do anything they want.
means that many people agree with purpose of laptop But a few years later, they and skills of the 100$ laptop. began to see the results, If we export to country to students can use the intercountry, many disadvannet really well and also, they ver time they imtaged people can learn techcould study use that laptop. They can teach their parents proved the design of the lap- nology and help them for top. First, they used green to adapting at life. who cannot read and they can know what happens all make this laptop, but they over the world. And also, if start to use other colors like If you that this is a good orange and sky blue. And idea, you could buy at least they have enough battery, also, they put some motion 2 because you can have they also can play some of monitor or some keyone for yourself, and you board to make it more com- can donate another one for fortable and improve and disadvantaged people. But also it help the children to in 2007 unfortunately, in use it easily. And also, they America and Canada 100$ put handle to make translaptops sell at 180$ not fer the laptop easier. And 100$. for that part, 100$ laptop is more comfortable.
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that project and said “We only need to pay 100$ to n our lives, technology is make the laptop that I said.” really important. At school So he made XO-1, which or academy, we learn tech- is a 100$ laptop all people nology but if we want to can afford. We can do many learn technology, we need things when we use that money. That means, we will laptop. They can know news have some problems with from all over the world and technology if we don’t have also, they can even study. much money. So what peo- Nicholas Negroponte said ple made was a 100$ Lap“There is two way to make top and that makes people cheap laptop. Cheap ingrewho have less money able to dient and use cheap worklearn technology and com- force and for workforce, we municate. will find at China and India. And we want to use the way It made by Nicholas Nethat use less ingredient and groponte at 2005. He made make good thing.” And he
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and other people spend 3 years to develop this laptop. We can use laptop by moving a pedal which stick under the school desk and that pedal makes electricity and the laptop can work using that electricity. So if we don’t have to pay money for electricity.
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here were some problems with the 100$ laptop, Bill Gates said “This 100$ Laptop is not good for education.” and also, other people’s reaction was nega-
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nd for now on, many countries want to export to their country and that
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Cancer and suicide for Apple Chinese workers
It has been known that in the company Apple of Shenzhen, 13 Chinese workers started developing cancer. It has been diagnosed that they had leukaemia and five of them died. The cancer which affected the workers was found out in 2010 for they were not there working the first time. By an interthen our iPhones would not view with Suki Chung, the ave you ever bought be even sold. director of Labor Action and Apple device? People China, we found out that hurrying to go and buy the the workers had to pay their new iPhone, people screammedical coverage, which ing and amazed about the any people think is a big amount of money “coming soon”, people that that Apple is the best brand for them. She also claimed when they bought an iPfor electronic devices and that benzene and n-hexane hone are shocked and in there is nothing wrong with chemicals used in the asa hurry to try and use it, that but we should look sembly lines of the iPhone but… do we actually think more behind the phones and iPad are likely to be the about the work behind an and their design and funccause of cancer and also iPhone? Do we think about tion. We should learn more families believe it. the people that made it and about the work to make how they worked hard? those phones and how the However Foxconn, the Well, we should because if workers are treated. Taiwan-based owner of the
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factory making products for other companies, said those chemicals aren’t used anymore and there is no link between the cancer spike and the chemicals used. Therefore he confirms that the workers who had leukaemia had different roles in the company that might not even need the use of any chemical. So we have two different opinions. The actual Apple Company is worried about this fact and is taking everything really seriously where about two million iPhones a week are made by an army of 230,000 migrant workers from across China.
and admitted that workers frequently have to stay on their feet for long hours for assembly tasks. Many live in horrible dormitory and often work every day including weekends. Though many workers prefer longer hours and worked 60 hours per week so they can make more money they weren’t paid as they were supposed to and we know this by an interview with them.
the phones that we use every day, which are like a necessity for us. Would it be better if an amount of money that we pay for the phones would go to the workers?
Written by Sofia Porrini
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his is kind of a mystery but it’s not all; besides the issue of the cancer, a Chinese Foxconn worker (the manufacturer that makes most of the Apple devices) committed suicide on Wednesday by jumping from his apartment. This is not the first case because there had been a plague of suicides in the factory since years. Advocates around the world examined the conditions at Foxconn’s factories
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