Rotary International

Introduction & Overview of the whole service In today’s world, our dependence on the use of cell phones and their utility is such that it has now become almost a basic necessity of our life. However, the smartphones that we use so extensively today to carry out our day to day routines with such high data rates have not always been like this. Cell phones and Cellular industry has witnessed perhaps the fastest ever evolution and has taken many forms over a period of last two decades. In technical…

First of all, smartphone addiction makes it difficult for teens to connect with other people. Smartphone was initially invented to help people connect in a more convenient way. In the past, it was hard to talk to one’s family members or friends who were in a different country. However, smartphone has changed everything. According to James and Drenn (2005, p.15), Australian students spend 1.5 to 5 hours per day on their phones. The problem is that teenagers nowadays spend too much time on their…

How to rotate a video using VLC With an increase in the number of smart phone users, a lot of us have found ourselves not just clicking pictures but also making videos of our special moments. If you too have used your cell phone to capture a video, it is quite possible that when you tried playing it in your computer, you found it to be rotated and were left scratching your head. This is an error observed in many smart phones as most of these phones are not designed to consider the orientation…

3.2 Present Over the years, technology has significantly altered the way people communicate with each others. In the beginning, people used telegraph to convey messages, but the telephone replaced the telegraph nowadays. Today, cell phones, email and the Internet have become the preferred method for people to communicate. In this network society, every 1 people in every 5 people in the world own a smartphone, every 1 people in every 17 people own a tablet. The popularity of the smart phone has…

Cell phones are becoming an everyday necessity in the lives of almost everyone in the United States. Where ever you go, you will see people talking, texting, on social media, or even playing games on their cell phones. For most people, it seems like they can’t live without them, like the inexistence of cell phones would be the death of them. Some people may even believe in the importance of having a cell phone as a way to identify with yourself, like a part of your sense of style, or your…

Disconnected In the reading Growing Up Tethered by Sherry Turkle she describes her experience of talking to high school students about being more connected to a cellphone than the world around them. I completely agree cellphones and other devices that keep us connected via web, text or call causes us to lose necessary physical interactions with other people. So much attention can be drawn from cellphones without having to leave the house, some people have friends all over the country that they…

already have their hands full with intoxicated drivers, speeders, aggressive drivers, no seat belts, children not restrained in a child seat, vehicle registration not current, vehicle safety not current (i.e.,, lights out or missing)? The International Agency for Research on Cancer-IARC, part of the World Health Organization, concluded that using cell phones MAY cause cancer. They classify that exposure to radiofrequency, electromagnetic fields, cell phone use as POSSIBLY *carcinogenic…

Using Hand Controls for Disabled Drivers Disabled drivers may have specific concerns that don’t apply to other drivers, but that doesn’t mean that a disability should stop a person from driving. If you’re disabled and wish to drive, the first step you may need to take is to be officially recognized as disabled by the state in which you live. Once you have done this, you might be required to have hand controls installed in your vehicle. Hand controls may enable you to drive independently, and…

In the article, “The Teening of Childhood” by Kay Hymowitz, she discusses what age group media is aiming towards and what steps they take to get the tween’s attention. A tween is in the age group between eight to twelve. They are just beginning to figure out who they are and want to be when they grow up, so they are experiencing many changes in their lives. The media aim their advertisements toward the pre-teen age group because tweens want to be like the “cooler”, older kids. If the media shows…

Years ago when the first car phone was invented, it wasn’t even available for every car. Often times it was businessmen or the upper-class who had these luxuries. Fast forward 30 years, it is not uncommon for multiple cell phones to be in a car at once, along with iPods, laptops, DVD players, an abundance of distractions. The picture shown above shows just how easy, common, and dangerous distractions can be. If you were to just observe people while driving, you would notice a young lady at a…