Piano of the Future?

Piano of the future underway?

"Hans Zimmer plays the piano of the future." CNN.

Blendis, Stefanie. McNicoll, Airon. "Hans Zimmer." CNN. Turner Broadcasting System Inc. 27 Sept. 2013. Web. 27 Sept. 2013. http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/tech/innovation/hans-zimmer-seaboard-future-piano/index.html


In the article above, it states that Hans Zimmer has played the keyboard of the future. This so called "futuristic" keyboard is called the Seaboard Keyboard, which retail for $1,999 up to $8,888. Zimmer tested the keyboard and gave the Seaboard a wonderful review.

Personally, I think that this is a wonderful invention in the techonology filled music industry. I feel that this may be one of the few "new" instruments that actually pick up speed. I feel that this instrument has a certain advantage over the piano/keyboard market due to the innovations being made. By moving your finger on a key a little to the left, the note goes down in pitch. If you move your finger slightly to the right, the note goes up in pitch.

Touch is really a main focus on the keyboard, as implied by Lambs commentary. "One of the most surprising pieces of feedback that I got from Hans was his emphasis on the importance of the touch. I've always known that the touch is kind of the core part of the Seaboard ... but he wanted to just go back and focus on the simplicity and the beauty."

I feel that this keboard will impact not just the music industry, but the world in numerous aspects. This keyboard will revolutionize music as we know it, making every song have more depth than ever imagined. Zimmer and many other people will be able to make movie sound tracks now that sound so much different than anything else!

Here is a video of Zimmers commentary, and the actual playing of the Seaboard Keyboard. Enjoy.

Blog Entry Number Two.

Hello readers,
     Unlike last week this week has been really uneventful. We literally haven’t even been out of the building. The sophomores got to go do things, and actually went on a fieldtrip. I wanted pizza, too. :(
      This week, we learned about some terms that are kind of boring. I guess this has just been a dull week in general, reflecting on it. Those terms are: URL, criteria, and evaluate. See? I told you they’re bland.
      A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator. URLs can be found in the top section of your web browser, usually in the address bar. URLs are more commonly referred to as web addresses, hence why they're in the address bar.


This is property of myself.

          Criteria is something that you use to judge a set of information. People have criteria in literally everything that they do. You have criteria for your significant other, your food, and even your clothes.
     Evaluate means to examine and judge carefully. Just like how you have criteria for everything, you also evaluate everything in life. You evaluate value, food, clothes, and even other people.
     This week, we learned about a new Web 2.0 tool called Diigo. Diigo is a really cool note taking website that is also downloadable on mobile devices. Everything you do is transferred onto your Diigo profile so nothing you do is lost over the "cloud."
     The Digital Literacy element we learned this week was all about Digital Citizenship. We learned about having good online ethics, good manners, and we talked about peoples privacy rights.
     Having good ethics mean basically abiding by the golden rule of treating people how you want to be treated. Good manners also applies to following the golden rule.
    These things all effect my life by making it better. I feel as if the Web 2.0 tools mentioned all make my life easier.

Until next time, bye guys.


     

Testing Bigger iPhone Screens For Future Production? 

"Report: Apple testing bigger iPhone screens" CNN. 
Gross, Doug. "Apple Testing." CNN. Turner Broadcasting System Inc. 6 Sept. 2013. Web. 6 Sept. 2013. <http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/06/tech/mobile/apple-bigger-iphone-screens/index.html>.

In the article hyperlinked above, there has been rumor of Apple testing larger iPhone screens. Rumour has it that these screens are up to 6 inches, which is a huge "step up" from the previous iPhone 5 screen (4 inches). On Wednesday, Samsung has just released their Galaxy Note 3 which has a screen size of 5.7 inches. There is also debate about whether Apple will be releasing different sizes of iPhones, like Samsung has previously for their Galaxy owners.

In my personal opinion, this testing is strictly a move to get Apple back into the smartphone market. Apple has been really struggling to keep up with Samsung lately. While the iPhones quality is higher, the Galaxy line has larger screens, and a better operating platform. I feel like Apple is the snobby rich kid in the world of smartphones because of the comment Apples CEO, Tim Cook, made in April of this year. "Our competitors have made trade-offs to ship a larger display. We will not ship a larger display iPhone while these trade-offs exist." Who says that, and then goes and tests larger screens? Can you say desperate? My final thoughts are that testing iPhone screens to a larger scale has been way over due.