4D Technology

Have you heard there are new gadgets waiting for you at the cinema? Have you ever dreamed of being inside a film? THIS IS THE FUTURE!!!

4D cinemas are the latest addition to the film industry. It is a way of involving you not even with images that can not only make you feel the image jumping from the screen, but even making you feel how the scene smells. Moreover, you can feel the chairs vibrating.

With this new technology, a simple take off could be transformed into an almost ''magical'' experience. You would be able to smell the plains fuel burning in the engine, the speed and the shaking of the seats while taking off, the clouds and the birds floating in the sky, the fog and the rain splashing the glass...

Imagine that sensation.

Now that you have imagined the situation, you could be excited about going to a 4D cinema. However, these new technologies are not available for commercial cinemas. In Spain, it is still in project. The creator of this 4D tech is a Korean cinema chain which, after several successes with some well known titles such as Avatar, have opened 3 more 4D cinemas and exported the idea.

Phablets

The market evolves and new products appear day by day. One of these products are phablets, enormous devices which combine smartphones and tablets.

Phablets can be useful in certain situations but the fact is that phablets were originally created to facilitate sketching, note-taking and annotation. However, most of smartphones nowadays can be included in this category.

And this is something that not everybody likes. Because, when a phone becomes too big to carry it comfortably it also becomes unuseful.

Surely there are smaller devices in the actual market, but, in the recent years the concept of smartphone has changed and, despite the fact that it is creating a great controversy, the market has changed too. 

In the past, the smaller and portable a phone was, the better. Nowadays we find phones up to 7 inches which is half a computer screen and exaggeratingly big.

I personally have a 5.5 inches device and however, I’m against phones getting bigger and bigger. As I see it, if we stay like this we will end using phones bigger than us!

 

Reading: paper…or e-book?

It is well known that technology has changed our lives and, in most of the cases, for better. But... has it helped in matters of education? Let’s start! 

With the advancements of phones and tablets, ebooks have become a popular reading standard. Still, some people argue that there's something about the feeling of an old-fashioned paper book. 

So... starting with the advantages of electronic books we find that they are more accessible and portable than traditional books, allowing you to carry your whole library everywhere.

However, as many others say, and this is something I support, the kind of format depends on the kind of book. Probably you won’t mind reading a certain novel on a screen, but, when it comes to some series that you like, you may prefer (as I do) a normal paper book of which from my point of view, is easier and more comfortable to read.

In terms of reading, this may not seem important, but I’m one of those people who feel the weight and touch of a book is a hard opponent for a screen. 

On the one hand, ebooks help us to save money and resources, reducing the amount of trees which are cut for us to enjoy a simple book. However, on the other hand, due to the facilities we enjoy nowadays for downloading new books, publishing companies are being damaged both in terms of economics and prestige. With more and more people moving to ebooks and more and more editorials being closed, the decision is yours, screen...or paper?