Before this article becomes a heavy dispute over Apple’s thumb print-reading technology, or the ever-co controversial hype between Samsung and Apple, I would firstly like to state that the technology for detecting earthquakes may not just lay within the temperamental screens of iPhones. In a recent study published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society…
A new idea has come up and it needs the world’s help to become a reality. Phonebloks is a new project in which the idea is to create a phone which can be separated into replaceable parts. For example, a lot of people break their phone’s screen. With phonebloks, this is no longer a problem…
Facebook, apart from being an informal networking website, is also emerging as a “personality check platform.” It’s not all so uncommon for us to go and search up a person we just met, look at his posts, his pictures, etc. and make judgement about his personality. Nowadays, even the corporate world relies on Facebook. The…
The Gamestop Expo is an event that was started to show Gamestop store managers some new games and software from their partners. The expo occurs in Las Vegas at the Sands Expo center. This year, they opened the expo up for one more day for the public to enjoy. Electronic Arts, Activision-Blizzard, Sony, and Microsoft…
These days, there’s no denying that smart phones are a part of our lives. It’s a huge part of our social system and the way we link to the world. However, there are some times where you need to put the phone down. Here are my social rules for using a smart phone. If you are on…
What do you think is better, playing your favourite game on a PC or console (like Xbox, Playstation or the Wii)? I have three reasons that lead me to believe that PC Gaming is better than console. 1. PC hardware: Keyboards and mice are compatible to different hot keys. For example, you can change the…
Some of you may have been fortunate enough to enjoy the fabulous array of fireworks Sunday night at the grand finale of GlobalFest 2013. But have you ever stopped and stared at those pretty lights in the sky and wondered how these fireworks actually work? I am not just talking about the meager firecrackers or…
Do you like guitar hero and other music games? Well here is a game for you! Osu is a Music game with many music genres within the game. Firstly maps are made by players and have a range of difficulties. There are thousands of songs in Osu which has an upside as well as a downside.…
Google is famous for being a hub of innovation, creating products which have the potential to change our lives in ways that no one imagined even a year before they were released. Google always manages to monetize these projects, improving the world while earning a profit. Looking at the evolution of these projects offers an…
In case you didn’t know, Youth Are Awesome is hosted on WordPress. Being a blogger means having multimedia-oriented features to convey your posts effectively, so for example, we YAA bloggers frequently turn to YouTube to share viral videos of the day to crack a laugh out of you readers. 😀 To incorporate these mediums of…
Today I am going to tell you my top three games to keep you entertained all summer. 3.Cube World Ever wanted to play an RPG with a pixelated look similar to MineCraft well here is the game for you. Cube world is role playing game where you can choose between 4 classes (Rogue, Ranger,…
Internet 60 times faster than the average Canadians! OneGigabit is a start-up company in Vancouver, making it possible by laying fiber cable 20 centimeters under the road without having to remove or damage it. This is extremely useful because as a start up company, it would be much harder to get started if they had…
Urban planning here in Calgary need to account for the parking crunch; in Japan, bike storage is gobbling up prime real estate that is hard to come by in such an urbanized country. Engineers created underground parkades to solve the car crunch, so now they have devised a method to park all those bicycles and…
Imagine being inside your favorite movie and seeing the characters as you see people on the streets. Imagine embodying the protagonist of a first-person shooter game, living inside a virtual reality. The Oculus Rift will allow its user to experience their favorite game or movie in a whole new perspective. The Oculus Rift is developed…
On every Urbanspoon (a trending website!) restaurant review page, the “opinions” section always has a “blog posts” section: Their Spoonback feature enables your food reviews for specific food places to be shown in that section! Letting readers access your food review blogs that way is very advantageous. If you click back to some of my food reviews, you’ll see…