Reference: STONE B (2009, May 3) looking to big screen E-reader to help save the Daily pressNew York Times Retrieved 2010, Mar 1
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/technology/companies/04reader.html?scp=3&sq=screen&st=Search
Summary:
This article talks about the new device used to read the newspaper or magazine instead of the paper one. At the beginning of the article, the author introduces the idea that this device isn’t like other e-reader devices. It has a big screen and the size almost like a standard sheet of paper. And many periodicals appear in generally the same format. Amazon appears to be first to try the electronic devices. They have introduced a lot of tailored wireless devices on its Kindle, and many other organizations want to join in. They thought this method could help them save much money to print and distribute. Many publishers thought they were not ready to deal with the rapid change because of the decline of printing, and they may sell subscriptions to support the article with ads. The subscribers can be updated once a day by network. But the new device could solve the problems like battery, color, and slowly update and develop a relationship with the subscriber. Many people are worried about how newspapers are going to survive in the future.
Reaction:
E-readers is a useful device; it can be used as newspaper and magazines, and we don’t need to worry about how to deal with a lot of waste newspaper. The new devices can be easy to use too. Newspaper will be replaced by the E- readers. I thought it is the tendency of the century. While we were reading newspaper and magazines, no one paid attention on to the fact that these papers caused the pollution of the environment. The new device will help us to protect the environment, but the most important thing is that it saves the cost of the newspaper.
The biggest issue for newspapers and publishers is newspapers were the cost of the large amount of the paper and ink. Sometimes the newspaper has been printed in color. And distributing cost the extra money too. After the E-reader becomes popular; a publisher just needs to put its news online and they don’t need to send the postman to deliver it. People can get the news they want whenever they want. Therefore this new device saves lots of trees. To cut down and made into newspapers will become their destiny no longer.
However, the E-reader may cause some problems; if this new device is used instead of the newspaper or magazine. Many people will lose their jobs, like the editor of the newspaper, and the worker who worked in the printing factory. Especially after the economic crisis, many people could not find the jobs and the government would not allow the numbers to improve. Furthermore, teenagers may use the digital device probably easily, but may be hard for an old person to use. This group of people prefers to use the traditional way to read the news. And as the author said, the new devices still have problems like color, battery, speed and some other issues.
Obviously the E-reader will lead the way of the public’s reading. But in a short time I think it will be hard to promote. The new reading system could be hard to accept by the public, and it is not perfect itself. We can expect that in the future, we don’t have to read the yellow and dirty newspaper, just click the screen; we can get the information we want.
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Reference:
Markoff, J(2010, February 22) Computers Turn Flat Photos Into 3-D Buildings New York Times Retrieved February 24, 2010
Summary:
The article talks about a new system which has been created by the computer science researcher at the University of Washington and Cornell University that could combine the others works and create three-dimensional renderings. This system was named PhotoCity; the creator named Noah Snavely, a computer scientist. He set up algorithms that generated three-dimensional models from two-dimensional photos which were unstructured. The original project came from the Microsoft’s Photosynth service, but the Photosynth was limited to hundreds photos mostly. This technology is able to process many digital photos of one object quickly, and render it in three dimensions. In order to get highly quality, the researcher tries to use the ways like integrating the system to the games, and the game quickly attracted lots of loyal players. The volunteers created a web site to collect photos. Their goal is to create a no boundaries game that can expand to fill the world.
Reaction:
Flash is a kind of famous image processing software. The fundamental idea is that the software collects many pictures which describe the same object in different ways and then makes it look like the object is moving. The PhotoCity has the same theory, but it used the two-dimensional photos to create three-dimensional renderings with some difficult algorithms. But in the three dimensional we need to consider about the different view degrees for the object, and it requires lots of pictures. The author mentioned that it can be collected online, here I have some questions; I think it is too hard to take pictures of one object in a steady space, and even though we can get lots of pictures from the website, it should be only a few photos that focus on the same object.
When we take pictures, we need to consider about a lot of elements around it: light, degree, color, focal length and environment factors like wind and background. If we want to make a three-dimensional rendering for an object, it will be hard to take many pictures unless we have a functional camera. Maybe we need a camera that can take high quality pictures in one second. It will be difficult for the fresh man who just learned how to take pictures. And another problem is lack of the pictures that have similar object and background inside. For example, if we take pictures of a flower, maybe we take it in the garden, or in the park, or the flower has different shape, bigger or smaller, brightness or darkness. So I thought it could not support much help for the three-dimensional creating by downloading the pictures from the website.
In another view, if we really can exploit the system completely, that could be such big technology for human. Like when we want to salvage the sinking boat, we need to consider the landform or the broken degree of the boat. With the help of this system we can easily know the environment of the sinking boat. Actually we can create a three-dimensional view of an object currently, but if we need to consider the environmental elements, we still need to take pictures from the original objects in different degrees. So I thought, no matter what kind of three-dimensional rendering we want to make, a high quality, functional and multipurpose camera is necessary.
When I was little I had never thought about whether we could observe a bird from up and down. Three-dimensional technology can help us to reach the dream. Science is developing rapidly. I hope we can find another way besides the camera to make three dimensionals, even if we don’t take photos directly from the object but still can observe it in different degrees, like the machine in some science fiction movies.
Markoff, J(2010, February 22) Computers Turn Flat Photos Into 3-D Buildings New York Times Retrieved February 24, 2010
Summary:
The article talks about a new system which has been created by the computer science researcher at the University of Washington and Cornell University that could combine the others works and create three-dimensional renderings. This system was named PhotoCity; the creator named Noah Snavely, a computer scientist. He set up algorithms that generated three-dimensional models from two-dimensional photos which were unstructured. The original project came from the Microsoft’s Photosynth service, but the Photosynth was limited to hundreds photos mostly. This technology is able to process many digital photos of one object quickly, and render it in three dimensions. In order to get highly quality, the researcher tries to use the ways like integrating the system to the games, and the game quickly attracted lots of loyal players. The volunteers created a web site to collect photos. Their goal is to create a no boundaries game that can expand to fill the world.
Reaction:
Flash is a kind of famous image processing software. The fundamental idea is that the software collects many pictures which describe the same object in different ways and then makes it look like the object is moving. The PhotoCity has the same theory, but it used the two-dimensional photos to create three-dimensional renderings with some difficult algorithms. But in the three dimensional we need to consider about the different view degrees for the object, and it requires lots of pictures. The author mentioned that it can be collected online, here I have some questions; I think it is too hard to take pictures of one object in a steady space, and even though we can get lots of pictures from the website, it should be only a few photos that focus on the same object.
When we take pictures, we need to consider about a lot of elements around it: light, degree, color, focal length and environment factors like wind and background. If we want to make a three-dimensional rendering for an object, it will be hard to take many pictures unless we have a functional camera. Maybe we need a camera that can take high quality pictures in one second. It will be difficult for the fresh man who just learned how to take pictures. And another problem is lack of the pictures that have similar object and background inside. For example, if we take pictures of a flower, maybe we take it in the garden, or in the park, or the flower has different shape, bigger or smaller, brightness or darkness. So I thought it could not support much help for the three-dimensional creating by downloading the pictures from the website.
In another view, if we really can exploit the system completely, that could be such big technology for human. Like when we want to salvage the sinking boat, we need to consider the landform or the broken degree of the boat. With the help of this system we can easily know the environment of the sinking boat. Actually we can create a three-dimensional view of an object currently, but if we need to consider the environmental elements, we still need to take pictures from the original objects in different degrees. So I thought, no matter what kind of three-dimensional rendering we want to make, a high quality, functional and multipurpose camera is necessary.
When I was little I had never thought about whether we could observe a bird from up and down. Three-dimensional technology can help us to reach the dream. Science is developing rapidly. I hope we can find another way besides the camera to make three dimensionals, even if we don’t take photos directly from the object but still can observe it in different degrees, like the machine in some science fiction movies.
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