Artifact 4

In the first video it seems to be a girl sitting next to a computer. There is a man sitting next to her using some sort of web cam to interact with her. As the camera moved in on the girl it was actually a robot. This was extremely fascinating to me because I did not know that technology such as this existed already. The robot had a skin like look to it which was extremely real. It was also able to function it's eye's and different muscles in the face which was impressive. This is a huge step in the direction to having robots in households and being more common. The man sitting next to the computer seemed to interact with the girl robot in some sort of way. He was controlling the actions she was making by videoing himself. Technology is making huge steps and it will be interesting to see where it goes over the next few years.

In the second video it seemed to be an instructional video on how to use a pencil sharpener. This was kind of funny after watching the first video and was not really any sort of technology. The man in this video gave a step by step way to successfully sharpen a pencil the correct way. This was an easy task that only took a little over a minute. It had almost no comparison to the first video

The information I received from artifact one is that it’s stating that the younger age groups tend to get their news from an Internet source rather than television. The increase of people using the Internet being more with the younger group could be due to the fact that we were born with technology all around us. The statistics show a slow decrease in the number of people who get their news from the Internet as the age groups get older. Many older people who are 65 and older don’t know how to use technology as well because they didn’t grow up with it. That may be the reason they don’t use the Internet for their news source as much. That was the lowest percentage out of all those who were included who used the Internet as their source for news. Throughout all the age groups the percentage of people who use the Internet to get the news is rising. For younger Americans it is rising vastly, and for the older it has a slower increase. The number of personalized news streams such as Facebook or Twitter has dramatically risen since 2006-2007. With technology becoming more and more advanced, I think that the Internet will be used to as an Internet resource more often. The new technology offers people to be able to customize their own page of news. It makes it much easier to get international news online also.  To get my news I much rather use the Internet, because it is faster and more direct in my opinion. To get the specific news that I am searching for I always use the Internet. It is available all the time and you can access almost any type of news. Being able to get to news that is not current is a lot easier to find on the internet. Past news articles are found all over the internet and are accessible more often than being on television. Also the younger age group using the internet to look at the news is because that age group is around computer’s more often. It is typical now days for someone who is younger to own a personal computer and use it for more than news. Being online anyways getting the news is a lot easier and faster to access when you are online checking personal news. Personal news comes from things like facebook, which is fairly new. Not many people who are over the ago of 65 typically have a facebook account or any personal news stream. The reason that I prefer getting my news on the internet is  because it is very accessible to me. With my laptop I can get the news anytime I want. With the new technology phones can access news also. It is not difficult at all to access news on something like an Iphone. There are apps and notification that you can receive the news from when something that interests you happens. On my Iphone I have a few different apps that do this for me.