DICTATIONS FIRST SENIORS (17,18,19)
iPod
iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple and launched in October 2001. Devices in the iPod range are primarily digital audio players, designed around a central click wheel.
iPod came from Apple’s digital hub strategy, when the company began creating software for the growing market of digital devices being purchased by consumers. Digital cameras, camcorders and organizers had well-established mainstream markets, but the company found existing digital music players “big and clunky or small and useless” with user interfaces that were “unbelievably awful,” so Apple decided to develop its own. The product was developed in less than a year and unveiled on October 23, 2001.
The name iPod was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance copywriter, who (with others) was called by Apple to figure out how to introduce the new player to the public.
As of April 2007, the iPod had sold over 100 million units worldwide, making it the best-selling digital audio player series in history.
Whose Phone is Ringing?
Cellphones have become an essential item for most people. The phone lets you remain connected to friends and family, check e-mail and the Internet, and listen to music or watch TV just about anywhere. The invention has simplified our lives in many ways. But it has also made our lives more complicated, too.
A recent phenomenon connected with cellphones is a feeling of anxiety. Experts and the media are calling this “ringxiety.” Some people think they hear the phone while in the shower, or shaving. Others often check their phones while watching TV, or walking down the street.
A doctoral student named David Laramie came up with the word. He swears that TV advertisements, songs on the radio, even running water can trigger his ringxiety. Most people believe that ringxiety is a result of the modern world, but there are a few people who see it as mind control via TV and radio broadcasts.
Speaking Beyond the Grave
Harry Houdini, who was a master escape artist, died eighty-one years ago. He remains famous. His name is associated with magic, vanishing acts, and death-defying escapes. But few people know about his fight against spiritualists. Houdini believed that they were greedy people who cheated others out of money. They were frauds, and the magician spent the last years of his life exposing their lies.
Houdini died from a punch in the stomach and a ruptured appendix. However, there are rumours that he was poisoned. And now modern-day scientists and investigators will examine the body and will finally put to rest the question: “Was Houdini murdered?”
Questions about the death certificate have caused additional speculation over the years. It stated that Houdini’s appendix was on the left side rather than the right, and strangest of all is the fact that the death certificate was completed after Houdini had been buried.
In a bizarre twist, though, Houdini’s body may have the chance to speak from beyond the grave.
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