Curated e-newspaper

  

Indeed it’s the time where digital media rules and all are stepping towards e-reading.

Having said that, it’s also true, reading a physical news-paper in morning with a cup of hot coffee or tea is a special feeling.

Oh boy, we forget. Global warming, the evergreen buzz word, how can we forget that?  To have physical paper we need to cut trees and waste pure water in aplenty. So (or we all) are against that. So what do we do?

You might have heard of curated web, similarly why can not we have a curated e-papers?  A customized new paper brings only that news in which we are interested. It can be local news, sports, education, events, arts related, innovation, science, technology front; end of my thinking capacity!

All users will have at least one custom profile; they will insert the magic-sheet [refer the definition below] into the printer and they select their profile and print the paper. It will also be possible to read those contents in your laptop, mobile, iPad, tablet and blah blah blah.

This opens up a news arena for advertising, advertisements will go only to those guys who are interested in specific fields. Say as an engineer I am interested in technical gadgets and I am subscribed to the technical news; being a leading Smartphone maker, Samsung will be happy to push his advertisement column to me rather than giving it to a person who have technophobia.  This method improves their hit-ratio and reach-to-apt-audience; ensures the value-for-money.

Now what?! As you know, every company spends a huge amount for public presence and advertisements. If they can achieve what they are targeting with lesser money, then they would cut-down the product price.   Sounds good. Isn’t it?

So why can’t we have one?

Technical description (rather expectation)

Magic-sheet:

It is made up of artificial components, decomposable, degradable, and recyclable.  It changes its color to white, to make it suitable for better reading, when a specific amount of heat, electricity or X (can be any thing) passes though it, like the dial in digital watches, only few portions turn dark dude to crystal rearrangements when electricity pass through it.

partiality

Yesterday was just another day, nothing much unusual  except the ten minutes delay n train which is quite natural with Indian railway.
         
       As the train gain momentum, I happened to notice the wall that read "God helps the humble & punishes the arrogant", the one forced me to wear the thinking cap again.  

       Its humble men's practice to thank god after remarkable achievement in their life, irrespective of the religion or race. It is said that in each victory, 50% of the share goes to the person and so does to thee. So ....
If the 50% share, god's, is constant, then its the remaining pie that makes the difference; so IMO there is nothing wrong if the individual show-off. But if its not fixed, then its god who exhibits some form of partiality.

any takers?!

tablet computers

And now we know that the world is heading towards the tablet computers. So what’s your pick?

Its pretty simple question for some of you, the one loves brand will have the obvious, either iPAD or Samsung Note.  But how many of you think beyond it? How many of you can think about your needs?

It’s a matter of fact that most of us are not using the facilities that are available in our cell phone or the desktop. But when you look at west, you could see the big line on the launch day to grab their favorite, similar one you can spot outside out liquor shops; is that only reason why we choose the same?  They have money so do we; they choose Apple or sample so do we!!!

            You may argue that quality is different in each; I do agree; being a quality engineer by profession I have no second thought about it. But for me, the questions are “who are you, what your needs are and what’s your budget?” here I must admit that even I failed to explore all the features that were available in my cell phones. [I used almost all feature in my first phone, Nokia 1110i, still its up and running]. You think about your needs; is it like you don’t want waste a second when receive an email? Or you want to stay plugged in to all networking sites where you have a gate pass? Or you just want to surf net occasionally?

Have you ever thought of your privacy? Personally I dot not like someone peep into my personal life, where am going, whom I am meeting, what am I doing… why the hell someone else want to know all these?

I can share some memories; the one I feel is ok if go public. But it’s unlike some other’s – I checked in here, having coffee with XYZ and heading towards hell in a car and its plate read blah blah blah …

Back to the context; what’s your pick?

For those who are not brand conscious and consider their needs before jump out for something that selling overseas, here you have two options; indeed the ones can fit your pockets; HCL ME and Micromax fun-book, priced under 8K with android version 4, ice-cream sandwich , specially designed for tablet computers. Both have 7” screen and 512 RAM. [You may think 512 is not enough to power a tablet, I have a cell phone with 3.75” screen and 150 RAM; its doing OK and sometime its bit slow; a 256 would be enough for my cell and 512 is apt for these tablets; but having said that, it is true that this is not enough for gaming].

All of them primarily targets students up to 10+2. I believe that if a device can work well in student’s hand then it can work will all; because students are the one always think out of box always and does stuffs which are  beyond its reach. So I hope, soon we can see our little brothers and sisters carrying just a tablet with them while entering school.