Telephone shaped people’s communication systems during wars and their everyday lives. Five decades later, another influential medium was born. As a modern counterpart to the telephone, Facebook changed the way businesses advertised, reshaped people’s news consumption habits, and influenced how people communicated with their families and friends. The well-known Canadian... More
For the nearly 100 years of television development, the medium has developed along the contemporary media history as an important broadcasting and video communication tool. Though the invention of television is believed to be the work of many individuals since the late 19th century, Scottish engineer John Logie Baird was... More
Growing up, millennials were usually proud to say that we were the generation witnessed the birth of internet. Not so long ago during our early teenage years, I recall me and my family cuddled in the sofa in our living room, waiting for time ticking to our favorite show playing... More
In early process, humans eyes evolved from mere sensors, called "eyespots", on unicellular organisms (Land & Fernald, 1992). Eyespots could only sense the brightness at the beginning, and after years of evolution the “sensor” upgraded to distinguish the shape, the color, and then the shades and all the details of... More
“The term ‘smartphone’ did not actually exist then but few would contest that Simon was, indeed, a smart phone.” (Pothitos, 2016) Although iPhone has been dominated the smartphone industry with advanced technology since 2007, it is not the first smartphone in the world. A prototype of the first smartphone named “Angler”... More