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Blog Post 32 Prediction Navid Nassiri

June5

The Washington Nationals have yet to get off to a hot start this season.  The Nationals are 28-29, below .500.  A record that is far from what they where at last year during this time.  Furthermore, the Nationals have faced many injuries this season, for example star player Bryce Haprer, and starting pitcher Ross Detwiler. […]

Blog Post 31 Prediction Navid N

June5

Microsoft’s new Xbox will drastically change your living room. Officially called the Xbox One, the new console comes with a built-in Blu-ray drive, extensive cloud capabilities, and the ability to bring in live TV directly from cable providers and the Internet.  The new console will come with a redesigned Xbox controller and a smarter Kinect […]

Blog Post 28 Connection

May15

SMS text messaging is dying down.  Smartphone chat apps such as Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger have overtaken SMS text messages for the first time.  According to data collected for the financial times, “Nearly 19billion messages were sent every day worldwide via chat apps last year, versus 17.6billion SMS messages” (Financial Times).  Apps such as WhatsApp […]

Blog 27 Prediction Navid N

May15

It’s official, the world’s first entirely 3D printed gun.  About 8 months ago, “Cody Wilson set out to create the world’s first entirely 3D printable handgun” (Andy Greenberg).   Early next week, Wilson, a 25-year-old University of Texas law student and founder of the non-profit group Defense Distributed, plans to release the 3D-printable CAD files for a gun […]

Navid N Prediction 22

April2

Samsung’s new Galaxy s4 is said to be released in April.  Some say that this will pose a great threat to Apple.  But Apple does not seem to be worried at all “We believe the iPhone 5S will handily outsell Samsung’s new flagship smartphone  in the second-half of the year” (Brian White).  White says the […]

Navid N #21 Connection

March20

Apple is said to release a brand new item in the market called the “iWatch.” Apple has a team of 100 product designers working on a “wristwatch-like device that may perform some of the tasks now handled by the iPhone and iPad” (Johanna Stern).  The device will also have a pedometer and other sensors, allowing it to […]

Navid N #20 Connection

March5

Can you believe that cars will soon be Wifi hotspots!  This will be so much helpful to our everyday lives.  Now a boring car ride will feel like you are at home surfing the internet or streaming music.  General Motors plans to out AT&T 4g service in all its models starting in 2014, allowing up […]

Navid N Prediction #19

March4

Google is working on a pair of glasses which feature internet connectivity.  Inside the left side are smartphone parts;  a processor and battery. On the front of the glasses, in the top left corner, are a small camera and a tiny glass display. On the top of the glasses are a power button and a […]

Navid N Prediction 18

March4

Wrestling will no longer be an event in the Olympics after the 2016 Rio Olympics.  In part because golf and rugby are coming to the Olympics, something had to go. This time it was wrestling, apparently edged out by the modern pentathlon for survival.  Wrestling is one of the oldest Olympic sport dating back to […]

Connection Navid Nassiri

February22

Have you ever been standing in a line at the restroom waiting for somebody to finish up drying their hand until it is your turn?  Well, I tell you I have, and it is often pretty awakward standing there with dripping hands.  Now, James Dyson, inventor of the famed Dyson vacuum cleaner, thinks he has […]

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