15+quotes+on+technology

1.The leader of Iran is so passionate about nuclear energy that he created a holiday for it."Keeping with a new annual tradition, Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, celebrated the holiday he created three years ago, National Nuclear Technology Day". [|http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/irans-nuclear-technology-day-happy-for-some/?scp=2&sq= nuclear technology&st=cse] 2. How can you make a thinner ipod than it already is i just think it might take very long."Bill Watkins, the outspoken former chief executive of Seagate, wants to make a thinner iPod."[| http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/a-silver-ooze-that-could-shrink-the-ipod/?scp=6&sq=ipod&st=cse] 3. how much difference can there be between 1mm. “The thing that has stunned me is how much a Dell or Apple will pay for thinness,” Mr. Watkins said. “There’s a big difference for them between 2mm and 1mm on some of this stuff.”[] 4.I wonder how nmany chips they can stack together and how small are these chips. "The start-up specializes in what semiconductor folks call 3-D stacking technology. Essentially, this means placing chips on top of each other and forming electrical connections between the products. The technique can lead to faster communications between the chips, takes advantage of vertical space inside products and can reduce the need for wires stretching across a device."http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/a-silver-ooze-that-could-shrink-the-ipod/?scp=6&sq=ipod&st=cse 5. Their planning on using an ooze to create electrical connections between the chips. "Vertical Circuits has developed a patented ooze that it uses to create electrical connections between chips." [] 6. The difference between between the old ipod and this thinner one is 1.6mm."Ultimately, the company is talking about a difference of 1.6 mm — about the thickness of a chain necklace — between its stacks of memory chips and more conventional ones."[] 7. It's bad though because they need the 1.6 back because it could lead for a bigger battery or larger screen. "The device makers are dying to get that 1.6 mm back,” Mr. Kaul said. He argues that the 1.6 mm could be the difference between a larger battery or larger screen fitting into a new device."[] 8. I wanna see these silver oozed products and its cool because some are coming out this year."Devices using the silver ooze should appear later this year." [] 9.In South Korea phones can do alot more things than they can hear in the U.S. " In the subway, Ms. Kim breezes through the turnstile after tapping the phone on a box that deducts the fare from a chip that contains a cash balance. While riding to school, she uses her mobile to check if a book has arrived at the library, slays aliens in a role-playing game, updates her Internet blog or watches TV."[] 10.You can also log in school with the phone."On campus, she and other students touch their mobiles to the electronic box by the door to mark their attendance. No need for roll call — the school’s server computer logs whether they are in or how late they are for the class."[] 11. They want to make the phone the center of life which is kind of like technology taking over. “We want to bring complex bits of daily life — cash, credit card, membership card and student ID card, everything — into the mobile phone,” said Shim Gi-tae, a mobile financing official at SK Telecom, the country’s largest wireless carrier. “We want to make the cellphone the center of life.”[] 12. Its so amazing how they can watch TV and read comic books that have sound effects. "With young South Koreans changing mobile phones once a year, according to consumer groups, it is virtually impossible to keep track of what they can do with the latest models. But the use of mobile devices is so widespread that at any given time, you will see South Koreans of all ages sitting in subways and buses engrossedin watching a television soap opera on hand-held devices, very often their mobile phones . They talk on the phone and at the same time read comic books on its screen. And these comics have sound effects: Phones vibrate when a bomb explodes."[] 13.The Koreans started using television signals to phones since 2005 and americans are just now using it."In 2005, South Korea became the first country in the world where mobiles could receive digital television signals — something Americans with their latest iPhones are just beginning to get used to."[] 14.Parents can even transfer their money to these phones with t-money instead of giving them cash."From late last year, people use “T-money” — electronic cash stored and refilled in their SIM cards and other phone chips — as Ms. Kim does when she rides the subway and bus or buys snacks from a 7-Eleven at her neighborhood or the vending machines and cafeteria of her school. Instead of giving their children cash, parents can transfer money to their kids’ T-money account."[] 15.you can also send gifts through phones like gift cards."T-money also makes mobile gift-giving possible. Someone can check into a mobile carrier’s online shop, buy an icon depicting a Starbucks Frappuccino and send it to his girlfriend’s phone".[]