In China, Human Costs Are Built Into An Ipad

An explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May . The explosion came from the area where employees polished thousands of iPad cases a day.  Two people were killed instantly and over a dozen people are hurt.Out of all the injured people , one body stood out because his features had been smeared by the explosion , scrubbed by heat and violence until a mat of red and black had replaced his mouth and nose. this person was Lai Xiaodong. six months earlier ,  Lai who was 22 years old had moved to Chengdu, in southwest China to become one of millions of human cogs powering the largest fastest and most cultivated manufacturing system on earth. That specific system has made it possible for apple and hundreds of  other companies to build soft wares quickly. in the last decade , apple became one of the mightiest , richest, and most successful companies in the world. apple and is high technology peers as well as dozens of other American industries have achieved a pace of innovation nearly unmatched in modern history.The workers assembling iPhones , iPads and other devices often devices often labor in harsh conditions according to employees inside those plants, worker advocates and documents published by companies themselves.

That is a abosolutly sad story . another life is waisted. Lai was going to be something in life and he died in a tragical incident. i honestly did want to see how his invention was going to be . althought Apple is doing too much for theirselves . having incidents like that is outragest. Apple is a very good company but i think they should take a break on things . i do enjoy alot of Apple products . Everytime i hear about something new it always have something to do with Apple. i just think Apple should take a break , and let people enjoy their products , and then start to make new inventions.

Photoshopped or Not ? A Tool to Tell

The Pictures of celebrities and model in fashion advertisements and magazines are always buffed with a helping of digital polish. The retouching sometimes are slight like colors brightened or a stray hair put in place or even a pimple covered up . Other types would be drastic such as shedding 10/20 pounds , adding a few inches in height and erasing all wrinkles and blemishes . It all could be done using Adobe's Photo shop software . The American medical association adopted a policy on advertisers , body image , and others to " discourage the altering of photographs in a manner that could promote unrealistic expectations of appropriate body image." in June . Dr.Farid became interested in the problem after reading about the photo-labeling proposals in Europe.Dr.Farid and Eric Kee, a PH.D. student in computer science at Dartmouth. are proposing a software tool for measuring how much a photo has been altered. their work is intended as a technological step to address concerns about the common use of highly idealized and digitally edited images in advertising and fashion magazines.

The passages makes me question  if my favorite celebrities really look as good as they do . I am not really surprised but its a little too much when your constantly doing it and when your making people look like barbie dolls. The last time i check photo editing was for fixing little things like pimples, lighting, or what ever the case may be. I am absolutely not satisfied that people are taking this too far. I believe that the software they are creating is going to work . I am interested in using the software one day. Then again anybody does have the right to do whatever they want to their photos , its their business , but its  not right because when we see a picture of someone everyone expects to see the real deal . I hope this software come out soon , i am looking forward to seeing some interesting things .