Should I get the iPhone 6 or the Nexus 6?

The glorious time has come where I get to pick out what kind of phone I want to purchase and i've decided between the iPhone 6 and the Nexus 6. The age old question of IOS or Android. Apples and bananas. I have spent a good deal of time on the internet looking at reviews and reading articles on the two devices and I still despite that can't make up my mind. So to help me solve my problem I took out some scrap paper and wrote down the pro's and con's of each and came up with this. (UPDATE) I think i'm gonna go with he Nexus 6!

Pro's and Con's of the iPhone 6

Pro's

• the use of iTunes for free
• integration with mac
• sleek design 
• good battery
• fast processer
• good screen size

Con's

• no customizations
• not unique
• EXPENSIVE

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Pro's and Con's of the Nexus 6

Pro's

• newest version of Android 
• not very expensive 
• you can customize to your specific taste
• long lasting battery
• advanced specs and display

Con's

• hard to obtain at first release
• not compatible with macs
• the use of Micro USB to charge

A rumored surface phone??

With all the buzz over the release of the newest windows phone people are starting to ask the question “Is this phone the one to make or break the lumia line up?” With this question comes the return of the rumor of a surface phone. Now this rumor has been around for a while but has just made its appearance again in light of the release of Lumia’s newest smart phone.

I speak for myself when I say that I would love to see Microsoft put out a surface phone. I think that the style of the surface tablets has been a big success  over the years and with their newest Surface and the surface book I think if they released a surface phone that the chances of it doing well are in it’s favor.

I think one of the things it’s got going against it right now is the lack of apps in the app store. Not many developers have released applications that are compatible with the windows store.

Below are some photo’s of what the rumored phone would look like. As you can see it looks similar to the surface tablets in design and one can hope that the build quality would also match it’s tablet brethren.

Still, it’s nice to hear a Surface Phone remains a possibility for late 2016 materialization, right?

Source:Pocket now

Will Smart Homes be the new trend?

Many of you have read my article on Windows 10 and the use  Smart Homes and therefore will have a better understanding of the context of this article. With the technology growing at a rapid rate, the use of technology in the normal home is at an all time high.
        The fact of the mater is that kids are growing up with using more tech in their homes and getting more used to it. Using tablets and other pieces of smart technology does in fact increase a child's cognitive skills in the long term. With the world being more and more focused on where to implement technology and make things we do in our everyday lives easier we see that impact that it has on the younger generation's.

If we are going of the "Official" definition of what home automation is then let's look and see what Wikipedia has to say about it shall we, "Home automation is the residential extension of building automation. It is automation of the home, housework or household activity. Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security. Home automation for the elderly and disabled can provide increased quality of life for persons who might otherwise require caregivers or institutional care."
          One of the advantages of home automation, and might i mention the reason it's gaining popularity is because of it's affordability and simplicity. The concept of "Internet of Things" has tied in closely with the popularization of home automation. 

I asked around on Facebook to see what other thought of the idea of smart homes or home automation in general and old lady brought up a good point what if you lose power? Would you be able to get in or even out of your home at this point? My response was I'd imagine that the house would use solar to story energy in battery's and also divide power to say a generator that charged itself with a car's battery gets charged, the more light energy passed through the more the alternator like device would turn thus charging a larger battery cell or a generator for like you said in case you lose power. But the downfall to that is what about if you don't get sun all that much you could resort to alternative sources of auxiliary power such as wind or hydro power.

The Rant

I still can't believe that even with the advances in new technology we still have to resort to using oil and gas for cars and for heating our homes, I would have thought that we would have been past that by 2015 or at least be using solar more often. I see homes with massive generators that cost as much as an array of solar panels and they don't give off pollution, i'm not an environmental nut but it bothers me when i see something like that. When asked about things like that people just say that it' more of a personal preference and that more reliable in the sense that with solar you have to have the battery cells full and make sure they get sun to keep then charged. It' the same with a generator, you have to keep it full of gas or else it won't start! I think there should be a compromise. A generator that's powered by a solar array. That way it's not using so much gas and it's taking advantage of that free sunlight we all have access to! 

My dream is to design and build a home that's completely "Smart"  when asked about how i'd create the balance so i don't become lazy i just say i'd make the simple tasks such as making coffee or opening the shades manual or automatic so you have the choice between having active mornings or just wanting to stay in bed. 

Conclusion

At the end of the day the question still remains the same, will smart homes take the world by storm in the next few years and completely change how we life? or will they just be a trend that only a small population of people have? I hope to find out more about smart homes in the future and thus make another article of them. Do you think they  will become a new trend? leave your thoughts below!

Time Travel, Is it real?

Ever wonder what it would be like to go back in time? What about being able to go into the future to see what you will be like years from now? I know this are a few of the questions that i ask myself late at night. We are the generation of change and science. Each and everyone of us has thought about time travel at one point or another. thought about the things we would change if we could go back in time. I recently read an article published by the ABC news website, The article states that Time Travel is in fact possible and will most likely happen soon. To read the article click here.

Have you ever seen the Back to the Future movies? Where Doc and Marty take the DeLorean DC-12 into the space time continuum. That is like all other time travel, they go back in time to stop something from happening but end up making things worse so they go in the future.

There are two different types of time travel, those are Forward Time Travel and Backwards Time Travel.
        Forwards Time Travel: here is no widespread agreement as to which written work should be recognized as the earliest example of a time travel story, since a number of early works feature elements ambiguously suggestive of time travel. Ancient folk tales and myths sometimes involved something akin to traveling forward in time; for example, in Hindu mythology, the Mahabharata mentions the story of the King Raivata Kakudmi, who travels to heaven to meet the creator Brahma and is shocked to learn that many ages have passed when he returns to Earth. A more recent story involving travel to the future is Louis-Sébastien Mercier's ("The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Were One"), a utopian novel in which the main character is transported to the year 2440. An extremely popular work (it went through 25 editions after its first appearance in 1771), it describes the adventures of an unnamed man who, after engaging in a heated discussion with a philosopher friend about the injustices of Paris, falls asleep and finds himself in a Paris of the future. Robert Darnton writes that "despite its self-proclaimed character of fantasy...L'An 2440 demanded to be read as a serious guidebook to the future. 

        Backwards Time Travel: Backward time travel seems to be a more modern idea, but its origin is also somewhat ambiguous. One early story with hints of backward time travel is Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733) by Samuel Madden, which is mainly a series of letters from British ambassadors in various countries to the British Lord High Treasurer, along with a few replies from the British Foreign Office, all purportedly written in 1997 and 1998 and describing the conditions of that era. However, the framing story is that these letters were actual documents given to the narrator by his guardian angel one night in 1728; for this reason, Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that "the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel who returns with state documents from 1998 to the year 1728", although the book does not explicitly show how the angel obtained these documents. Alkon later qualifies this by writing, "It would be stretching our generosity to praise Madden for being the first to show a traveler arriving from the future", but also says that Madden "deserves recognition as the first to toy with the rich idea of time-travel in the form of an artifact sent backward from the future to be discovered in the present.

       As we advance more in technology the possibility of us being able to travel through time becomes more and more real. Pretty soon we will be able to send out packages through wormholes and never have to wait for them through the mail. Time travel, wormholes, they all have amazing possibility's and uses but the hard part is getting them to work for us not against us. One day we will be able to warp through time and space and I hope that I am alive to witness at least the start of time travel.