There is a photographer within all of us. However, it depends on the extent to which a person wants to hone this skill. In the earlier days, only those with the resources could afford this ‘elite hobby’. The cameras were themselves very expensive. The photographer would have to wait for that right moment and photographer has to take settings like aperture, shutter speed, ISO, white balance and many more into considerations while preying on the perfect click. Photography, today, has grown over time. The cameras have become smart: they cater to exotic features like instant transfer through wifi, bluetooth sharing, smart settings, and expandable memory. These features have allowed the photographer to focus on the frame rather than on the fine technicalities.

She/ he can take hundreds of photographs without a single thought of using up one of the 16 film reels and eventually select the best that she/ he finds the perfect click.

Technology has taken a step ahead by incorporating cameras within our cell phones. A phone without a camera, well, without two cameras are losing their value in the minds of the general audience. Everyone cares about the camera of the phone. This hypothesis has been proven by Apple and Google’s focus on the optical stabilizing camera, which specifically provides low light photography. Not only these global giants but other companies competing in the mobile phone market have made their concern over the photographic aspect of the phone. This, in turn, empowers the people to click photographs, share, and capture memories without even possessing the luxury of a DSLR camera.

Despite all the amenities provided by the phones, photography enthusiast tend to prefer the DSLR camera since these too have evolved to present an image that is close, if not better, to the image captured by the best camera in the world- the eye.

-Sarika Kaushal

Just Say, Feel, Execute 

Did you ever want searching through Google to be easier?

“OK Google” is a voice command used to activate Google Now voice search on your Android smartphone. It can be accessed by opening your phone’s Google Search app or Google Search widget and either tapping the microphone icon or saying “OK Google”.

You can ask Google Now pretty much anything you like, just as you normally would with Google Search. However, “OK Google” command can as well be used to set alarms, make calls and send texts, schedule meetings and do much more on your Android device. Day by day capabilities of Google Now is increasing and it is expected that in near future it will be one of the best voice-assistants.

Let’s see some Google Now commands for searching and knowing the exact answer instead of a list of webpages which may have the answer.

If you want to have a look at the official list of Google Now commands, you can find them in the link https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2842392?hl=en

With that I am winding up this article. I hope you try and experience a lot more Google Now commands.

– Mohit Dey

GOOD things happening about the technology today are that it is becoming faster, more economic, simpler, and increasingly intuitive. Over the last few years, we have seen a rapid change in technology tools and services; we are moving very fast from the bulky personal computers that we were once fascinated by, to tiny palmtops, smart mobile devices, and now to wearable devices. Most services that seemed impossible are now available at a touch. The speed of data is moving from mbps to gbps and those days aren’t far when it becomes ptbs.

We started working on CPU 8086/80286 with a speed in range of 6 MHz to 25 MHz and today we are on CPUs running at over 2GHz, an upgrade of about a hundred times.

Many technology companies are working on business models wherein they are not charging users directly for their services, making more and more people benefit from it. Google is one of the biggest such companies that believes in global access to technology.

With more and more use of technology tools and services, we are automatically heading towards a transparent and simplified culture, where we aren’t dependant on individuals for information and data. This eradicates corruption and the role of the middleman, which is a serious allegation against ethics in technology.  

Some of the innovative things, I would like to share as per views of some experts as follows:

1. Mindfulness assistance devices – Mindfulness, mental stress and performance is the next biggest area of self-improvement coming to the world. As the white-collar economy and the speed of life increases, everyone will be looking for an edge both in performance and happiness. – James McDonough, SEE Forge

2. Wearable solar jackets – We are becoming more and more reliant on our smartphones and when the battery dies, we are lost. There is this cool new product, wearable solar, that charges your device through solar power. Stuck somewhere with a dying phone? Slip on a jacket and head outside to power up your device. – Elliot Bohm, Cardcash.com
   
   3. Smart fitness monitors – Are today’s fitness monitors providing you the kind of insights you need to change your lifestyle and behavior? I don’t think so. In the coming months, these devices will become much smarter using machine learning so that they can tell you what to do and when to do it. The current state is a passive one where you know what you did, the future state is an active one where these devices are your actual health partners. This will need an innovation in both hardware and software, but more so in machine learning tailored to digital health. – Ashu Dubey, 12 Labs
3. Smart contact lenses – The next phase isn’t fitness, but health and medicine. Google in particular has been eyeing contact lenses as a way to monitor glucose levels — a $10 billionmarket. – Sam Saxton, Salter Spiral Stair and Mylen Stairs
   
   5. High-tech fabric – The biggest opportunity in the wearable space is to embed the sensors into the fabric of clothing. Forcing someone to wear a device creates a barrier to growth. Embedding the technology into apparel will allow the most natural integration with fashion. – Aaron Schwartz, Modify
4. Happiness and emotional monitors – As our brain’s patterns and chemical fluctuations become more understood, we’ll soon be able to easily deter shifts in emotions and moods that impact our output. We often don’t pay attention to our moods during the day, and wearables could help offer insight, almost like a coach. Moods are often just simply triggered by external factors (like “road rage” when driving or an incessant employee who triggers a judgmental attitude) or physical conditions (like “hanger,” which makes you terse and crabby because you skipped lunch). – Beck Bamberger, BAM Communications
   
   And many more such innovations are in the pipeline. What is important for us now is not to panic, but to watch and watch, and choose what we need to adopt according to our own needs. With such innovations, we get more FREEDOM to choose the right thing in right manner.

Mukesh Kumar

Wartex 2.0 was held at D.A.V Public School, Dayanand Vihar on 22nd November 2016. Exun Clan bagged the overall winners trophy. The individual results are as follows:

A/V Editing – Winners
• Akshay Khandelwal
• Anirudh Chauhan
• Ananay Arora

RoboWars – Winners
• Danish Bansal [RK]
• Shaurya Jain [RK]

Surprise Event – Winners
• Shashwat Goel

Gaming – Runners Up
• Veer Vaibhav Singh Rathore [DS+]

RoboSoccer – Runners Up
• Aahan Birla [RK]
• Yash Mathur [RK]

Mental Ability – Runners Up
• Shashwat Goel
• Aman Verma

Snappic – Second Runners Up
• Arnav Singh [ETC]

Congratulations to all the winners!

Project Beta 2016 was held at Sanskriti School, Chanakyapuri on 1st October. The individual results are as follows:

Programming – Winners
Ayush Singla
Manav Aggarwal

Gaming (Console) – Runner Up [DS+]
Advay Das

Gaming (PC) – Runners Up [DS+]
Haardik Kumar
Aaryak Garg
Saharsh Vedi
Veer Vaibhav Singh Rathore
Karthik Madhav Jain

Congratulations to all the winners!