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1.1 Mechanism of a “musical” floppy drive The floppy drive itself is musical in a certain way depending on what people may perceive as musical such as the sound of friction. In my project, the floppy drive makes sounds through pitched notes due to friction between the read-write head and the diskette. It produces notes since the diskette has contact friction with read write head, in revolution. Recall that sine waves can be viewed as the progression of a circle over time, or a revolution. Spinning

This year, in 2014, video game will turn 44 years old. The industry that started with a 1D computer space game has now turned into a multi-million dollar business. Over the years, video games have played a huge role and have undeniably become an integral part of our life and culture. But as the gaps of reality and gaming experience dwindle, this raises a question of whether video games, like films and music, could really be used as a valuable medium for educational purposes or is it really just the

attention and focus more emotionally and physically on the screen. There are different games that are made to appeal the gamers and have their own style and graphic to attract different stages of audience. More, video games it all started beginning from Atari console, which included a very simple games such as Mario and chees and simple controller. Now, we have a different types of consoles such as PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and others available consoles in the market with variety of games. Also, with

Persuade Essay Imagine it is 1990 and you just heard one of your friends got the new Super Mario World video game. It’s after school and your friend invites you over to play this new game with him. When you both sit down to play you become engulfed in the new colors, structures, and features of this new game. The only thing you can think about is the graphics being far better than any game you own at home. Nowadays, the graphics of video games are of much higher quality than in the 1990’s

the person who rewrite the blank part of the video game commercial market, and brings this entertainment to the whole world. Nolan Bushnell, he is a technology pioneer initiate the new history of video game, entrepreneur that established the Atari in 1972 and engineer which exploit several the most classical game. He always cited as the father of the video game industry. Bushnell is passionate about consider

Growing up as a gamer, I have experienced many new things in the video game industry. I’ve been playing video games since the Sega-genisis that I started playing when I was three years old. I’ve been gaming almost my whole life, I have watched new console been introduced, seen video games go from 1080p to now an amazing 4K which makes the graphics look amazing. Modern video games even have virtual reality that you as a consumer can now play in your own living room. But, even though we have amazing

games can be seen as a safe way for players to release rage and emotions. However, Columbine did happen and in a way it took images from a computer game to the real life. Video games have been around since 1974 when Pong, the first video game by Atari, was released in the United States. Since then video games have grown into a huge industry for all ages. The biggest group of customers for the industry is young males. Boys aged 8-18 spend an average of 40 minutes a day playing video games. Girls

Technology and its Effect on Social Isolation DeVry University Technology has an impact on almost everyone’s lives these days. People communicate with Facebook and text messages other than calling people on the phone or actually going to visit that person. This is becoming a problem, because the more involved with technology we are the less we are involved with socialization. Imagine a world where all we have is computers everywhere and they do everything for us

The video game industry has grown into a colossus of today’s business world over the past forty-three years. Constantly adapting to the changing market, in order to make a profit off of a popular form of entertainment, the video game industry is continually expanding. But, two very important questions, about the industry, exist: Why has the industry become so popular, and where will that popularity lead? By the trend that the industry has shown video game popularity is due in part to the industry’s

We all know the big companies like Nintendo or Sega. How about Tennis for Two or Spacewar? Video games have became a multimillion dollar media and it all started from one game. The first video game’s history is shrouded in mystery. Some people think it was the 1962 game Spacewar. Others think it was was Willy Higinbotham’s 1958 game Tennis for Two. Would you believe me that it is Tic-Tac-Toe? At the time it was called OXO. In 1952, Alexander Sandy Douglas made OXO using an Electronic Delay Storage