NEWS / FUTURE SHOCK / Noticias chocantes.

Hi my dear friends, once again I'm here to show you today some "special news" that can be considered as a future schock or not, you will tell me after, I hope.

Hola mis queridos amigos, una vez más estoy aquí para enseñaros hoy algunas "noticias especiales" que pueden considerarse como chocantes y del futuro o no, ya me contaréis, ¡o eso espero!

From Speak Up magazine.

A HISTORY OF SOUND

These days everybody seems to have their own website or blog, many of which seem to be pointless. Yet,  there are some that while appearing to be useless are actually very interesting and important!
The Museum of Endangered Sounds  www.savethesounds.info  is a website dedicated to saving those sounds from your youth that are now about to become obsolete:  sounds such as a typewriter, a fax machine, or the hiss between songs on a cassette tape, that you may have once hated but that you now feel nostalgic for.

Marina di Pisa - Pisa (Italia)

A SAFETY NET FOR FISH

The fishing industry has often come under attack for cathing smaller fish in deep-sea fishing nets when they are only after much bigger ones.

Now, a new award-winning UK invention called "The Safety Net"  offers an escape route for small unmarketable fish by using LED  lights to light up a pathway to small rings in the net, and to sea freedom for "small fry"


3D  LEAP FORWARD

Silicon Valley based company LEAP MOTION  has just launched a 3D-gesture-sensor device that could mean that the days of the computer mouse are numbered.  The "Leap"  creates a 3D interaction space in front of the computer screen,  in which the tiniest gesture can be sensed.



RECYCLING SHOWER

If you have problems getting out of the shower, here's an invention that will make you feel better about the wasted water and energy!
Briton, Peter Brewin has invented a shower that recycles water while it purifies it.  The shower is set for use in drought prone zones.


VOCABULARY

-POINTLESS:  sin sentido.
-USELESS:  inútil.
-ENDANGERED:  en peligro.
-TO COME UNDER ATTACK:  ser el blanco de las críticas.
-SMALL FRY:  pececitos.
-LEAP  FORWARD:  un salto más allá.
-DEVICE:  dispositivo, aparato.
-DROUGHT:  sequía.
-PRONE: propenso.
-HISS: silbido.


HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!

AND BE HAPPY!!!

INSTAGRAM, THE PHOTO APP / Instagram, la aplicación de fotos.

Hi my dear friends, today we'll look at an app, a very famous  photo app : "INSTAGRAM" , its origins and curiosities.

Hola mis queridos amigos, hoy hablaremos de una aplicación, una aplicación  fotográfica muy famosa : "INSTAGRAM", sus orígenes y curiosidades.


From Speak Up magazine

INSTAGRAM

Instagram is an "app".  App is the abbreviation for the word application.  An application is a programme which you can install onto your smartphone.  Instagram is a programme which permits you to take pictures, apply some special effects to them, share them with the other Instagram users and receive somments on them.

Instagram is also a social network, like Facebook or Twiter.  You can have friends, you can follow people, and people can follow you.




REGULATIONS AND RULES

Instagram was originally for Apple phones and devices such as iPods and iPads, but it is now possible to have this programme on Android phones, too.  There are Terms of Use that users must follow.  For example:  You must be 13 years old or older.  You can't post nude, partially nude, or sexually suggestive photos.  You must be responsible for your own account and all its activity.




INSTAGRAM DEVELOPMENT

Instagram development began when Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger started working on a project on mobile photography.  In January 2011, Instagram added hashtags to help users discover pictures they could find interesting, and discover other users with similar tastes and insterests.  In February 2011, Instagram's value was $25 million.

FACEBOOK

In April 2012, Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion.  In contrast to many other programmes and social networks, Instagram does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video or any other materials that users post.



TOP INSTAGRAMERS

Liz Eswein studied media, culture and communication at New York University.  She has over 400,000 followers, more than Lady Gaga or Madonna.  Her address is simply @newyorkcity.  She documents iconic scenes in New York.


Anthony Danielle, or @takinyerphoto on Instagram, is very popular for taking pictures of fashionably conscious New Yorkers.  He is now considered one of the "15 Stylish People to Follow on Instagram"  by Complex Magazine and has had photos featured in the Huffington Post and Mashable.com



VOCABULARY

-TO TAKE A PICTURE: sacar una foto.
-TO APPLY: aplicar.
-TO SHARE: compartir.
-TO FOLLOW: seguir.
-DEVICE: aparato.
-SUCH AS:  tal como.
-SUGGESTIVE:  insinuante.
-HASHTAG:  almohadilla.
-TO CLAIM: reclamar.
-FASHIONABLY CONSCIOUS: personas que van a la última moda.


HAVE A NICE DAY !!!!

AND TAKE PHOTOS!!!