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Does your office look like a computer store? Are there VoIP phones, computers, laptops, big screens and fancy mice? Do you have an iPhone and a Blackberry? Every day just about everything we do now involved technology. Selecting the right technology to do my job isn't always easy. Have you ever made the wrong choice? Have you let a customer video conference in when you were wearing a t-shirt with a less flattering logo on the front? Optimizing your use of technology is something each of you has to handle as an individual. For instance I have learned that I have a terrible short-term memory so if I take a phone call while I'm driving, there's a good chance that whatever I told somebody on the phone will be forgotten or skipped. If you call me while I am driving and ask to set up an appointment next Tuesday chances are good I won't be there. I've learned to be somewhat selective in answering calls while I'm driving for that reason. When I do take the call an...

Automotive advertising agencies who expect to be here tomorrow must apply tomorrow's technology today or they will follow their shuttered auto dealer clients into the ranks of the unemployed. The consolidation of the auto industry is a necessary reaction to a shrinking economy and the proof of two basic rules of business -- supply must follow demand and survival of the fittest insures that it will. The secret to survival for automotive advertising agencies and their auto dealer clients in a challenging market is to offer more for less and the technology being designed to improve sales processes on the Internet provide efficiencies that will determine the winners and the losers. Integrating proven real world automotive advertising best practices with maturing virtual world selling processes that rely on developing technology on the Internet allows forward thinking automotive advertising agencies to blur the line between the real world of brick and mortar auto dealerships and the...

STEM makes headlines every day--a definite education priority from the highest levels of government on down. The goal: invigorate the teaching of science, technology, engineering, and math in our middle and high schools and raise America's academic standing in the world. Like many others, President Obama has been quite vocal about the shortcomings of STEM teaching and our students' lackluster testing performance, hence the government's push for improvement. To that end, he has... o Initiated an annual White House science fair. o Launched his "Educate to Innovate" campaign, a nationwide effort to move America's students up from the middle of the pack in math and science. o Challenged scientists, engineers, educators, the private sector, and governors to join him in a national campaign to engage students in STEM fields. o Given a competitive edge to states that commit to improving STEM education in his Race to the Top grant contest. o Recently honored ...

One of the most important things to remember when it comes to science experiments is safety. Very often, accidents that could have been prevented happen in science laboratories because of the lack of safety precautions. Other times it is the experiment itself that is not entirely safe for replication in school laboratories or in homes. Despite the dangers of experimentation, however parents should still encourage their children towards science. Look for fun and safe science experiments that your children can do, but still practice the following safety requirements. In a science laboratory, no matter how many fun and easy science experiments a teacher has lined up, students are often required to wear lab coats. This is to prevent them from spilling anything potentially dangerous on their clothes, and it also saves their clothes from getting stained. A lab coat provides extra protection, or an extra layer of protection before any chemical may touch the skin. Some science laboratories...

In order to view 3-D movies an illusion of depth needs to be created. An easy way to trick the brain into viewing depth is to provide the eye with two different versions of the same object. Each version will have a minor deviation similar to what both eyes see naturally in binocular vision. Remember in the 1950s when 3-D movies were all the craze. I remember seeing those old black-and-white photos, with guys with short haircuts and women with bouffant hairdos, wearing green and red 3-D glasses watching a black-and-white screen. The 3-D technology used in these movies was anaglyph. In 1853 Wilhelm Rollmann developed this technique. Using two color layers offset to create a 3D effect. By using two colored, glasses which are opposite in color, a stereoscopic 3-D effect can be created. The modern IMAX movies of today use polarized passive technology. Polarized glasses create the illusion of 3-D images by restricting light that reaches each eye, which in turn creates a stereoscopic ...

Monitor types CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors are a now archaic display technology that was popular even into the 21st century. A cathode ray tube contains multiple electron guns, which fire electrons through a vacuum onto phosphor "pixels". Three colours of phosphor "pixels" are present (red, green and blue), and deflection by a magnetic field determines which ones will be lit. Although colour reproduction and contrast were excellent in later models of CRT monitor, modern LCD monitors (see below) are vastly thinner and lighter, whilst providing outstanding contrast ratios, good colour reproduction and response times. A list of now-redundant terms related to CRT monitors can be found in the final section of this PC Monitors article. LCD (liquid crystal display) monitors LCD screens are the current standard of display for most PC monitors, TV screens and electronic devices such as digital cameras, mobile phones and MP3 player...