Deck 7: Personal Technology: the Future Is You

Question 1

________ is a tablet PC.

A) Kindle 2
B) Nook
C) iPad
D) Apple iPhone

Answer 1

C

Question 2

A smartphone is actually a radio.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Texting and SMS are the same thing.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Digital music players,such as the iPod,use one or both of the following file storage technologies: ________ and ________.

A) hard-disk drive; flash memory
B) Wi-Fi; Bluetooth
C) microwave; infrared
D) RAM; ROM

Question 5

The downside of personalization is people feel overburdened with too much choice,so that they are likely to ________.

A) regret their decisions
B) be reluctant to make decisions
C) have excessive expectations about their decisions
D) all of these

Question 6

When most of us used to tune in our TV sets,we got a system of varying signal amplitude and frequency that represents picture and sound elements.This system is called ________ TV.

A) interactive
B) personalized
C) Internet
D) analog

Question 7

________ TV uses a digital signal,or series of 0s and 1s,and is much clearer and less prone to interference than analog TV.

A) Interactive
B) High-definition (HD)
C) Standard-definition
D) MP4

Question 8

The societal effects of new TV technology are that it can change ________.

A) when you watch TV
B) where you watch TV
C) the nature of TV programs
D) all of these

Question 9

Smartphones are an example of digital convergence.

Question 10

Using a smartphone to send short messages to another smartphone or other handheld device is called ________.

A) short messaging
B) Internet messaging
C) text messaging
D) emailing

Question 11

Another name for image sharpness is ________.

A) pixel setting
B) digital zoom
C) optical zoom
D) resolution

Question 12

PMPs are mostly of two types-music players and media players-but much of what they can do can also be done on today's _________.

A) tablets
B) smartphones
C) laptops
D) all of these

Question 13

A digital camera's resolution is expressed in ________.

A) megabits
B) MB
C) dpi
D) megapixels

Question 14

A camera,either film or digital,that automatically adjusts settings such as exposure and focus is a ________ camera.

A) wide-angle
B) single-lens reflex
C) point-and-shoot
D) LCD

Question 15

Portable media players (PMPs)are small portable devices that allow you to play digital music and video.They use a format called ________ that allows audio files to be compressed so they are small enough to be sent over the Internet or stored as digital files.

A) HD
B) MP3
C) SLR
D) PDA

Question 16

Loss of privacy is not an issue as a result of digital convergence.

Question 17

A digital camera's images are stored on ________.

A) mini-CDs
B) digital film
C) flash memory cards
D) all of these

Question 18

The Apple iPhone is a cellphone with a microprocessor,display screen,memory,and built-in modem.Thus it is a ________.

A) PDA
B) smartphone
C) SMS
D) 2G phone

Question 19

Digital convergence combines several industries,including:

A) computers and communications
B) consumer electronics
C) entertainment and mass media
D) all of these

Question 20

The quality of a song on a digital audio player is determined by its ________,the number of times a song is measured and converted to a digital value.

A) resolution
B) zoom rate
C) sampling rate
D) file transfer rate

Question 21

MP3,a digital format used on portable media players that allows files to be compressed,is a video compression technology.

Question 22

The principle tablet operating systems are Apple's iOS,Google's Android,and Microsoft Windows RT.

Question 23

Unlike traditional radio,podcasting requires no studio or broadcast tower,and there's no Federal Communications Commission regulation.

Question 24

A digital camera uses both film and a light-sensitive processor chip.

Question 25

A tablet computer is a portable combination of a smartphone and a laptop computer with wireless connections and a multitouch screen.

Question 26

The number of megapixels a digital camera has is the only factor affecting photographic quality.

Question 27

The quality of a song played by a digital audio player is determined by the analog sampling rate,the number of times that a song is measured and converted from a digital to an analog value.

Question 28

Digital cameras have color LCD screens that preview the image that you are about to shoot.

Question 29

Too much multitasking can result in "absent presence."

Question 30

The Kindle Paperwhite is a basic e-reader model.

Question 31

A single-lens reflex camera is a camera that has a reflecting mirror that reflects the incoming light in such a way that the scene viewed by the viewer through the viewfinder is the same as what's framed by the lens; professional photographers often choose this type of digital camera.

Question 32

E-readers are useful as multipurpose devices,and tablets are better for reading.

Question 33

Podcast-receiving software is called an aggregator.

Question 34

E-book readers enable people to read e-books (the electronic equivalent of printed books).The e-book versions contain everything that is in the printed versions.

Question 35

The more megapixels a digital camera has,the better the resolution and the higher the quality of the image,and so the higher the price of the camera.

Question 36

Digital music players can be divided into those that use hard-disk drives for storage and those that use flash-memory cards.

Question 37

A digital point-and-shoot camera produces images of better quality than those produced by an SLR digital camera.

Question 38

The threshold for safe listening to MP3 players is about 90 minutes a day at 80% volume.

Question 39

Digital cameras come with a flash memory card that is inserted in the side of the camera.These cards can be used only once,so users have to keep buying additional cards.

Question 40

Satellite radio combines digital and analog broadcast signals,enabling stations to offer an analog main channel and digital "sidebands" so that multiple types of content can be broadcast from the same position on the dial.

Question 41

Millions of _______ are tightly packed together on a digital camera's image sensor (a silicon chip); when light strikes them,an electrical current is generated that is converted into the digital data that becomes your photograph.

Question 42

The combining of several industries-computers,communications,consumer electronics,entertainment,and mass media-through various devices that exchange data in digital form is known as digital ________.

Question 43

When people do several things at once,they are _______; thus they are not doing any one thing really well.

Question 44

A smartphone's OS is stored in its _________ memory.

Question 45

The data you store in your phone,such as telephone numbers,is stored on _________ memory cards,which means that the data does not disappear when you turn your phone off-it is nonvolatile.

Question 46

Instead of being stored on film,the images in a digital camera are usually stored on ________ cards inside the camera; they come in various formats and storage capacities.

Question 47

On the web,the creative combination of content or elements from different sources to create new content is called a _________.

Question 48

Basically,digital music players can be divided into those that have hard-disk drives for storage and those that have ________ for storage; some players have both.

Question 49

In addition to keyboard input,new smartphones also allow _________ input for issuing commands.

Question 50

SMS stands for ____________________________.

Question 51

High-definition TV has a higher resolution and uses a wider screen than standard-definition TV and uses much more bandwidth.

Question 52

High-definition television (HDTV)works with digital broadcasting signals and has a wider screen and higher resolution than standard analog television.

Question 53

Smartphones are often used for ________,the sending of limited-length messages to another smartphone or other handheld device.

Question 54

________ is a format that allows audio files to be compressed so they are small enough to be sent over the Internet and / or stored as digital files on a mobile device.

Question 55

A ________ is a combination of smartphone and laptop computer in a single multitouch,web-enabled panel.

Question 56

Videogame consoles use the same CPUs and operating systems as desktop computers.

Question 57

The quality of a song played on a PMP is determined by the number of times,expressed in kilobits per second (kbps),that the song is measured and converted to a digital value,which is known as the ________ rate.

Question 58

The number of pixels on a digital camera's image sensor are measured in _________.

Question 59

People in the United States who still have analog TVs now must use a converter box to receive digital TV (DTV)signals,because TV broadcasters have switched from analog to digital.

Question 60

_________ have a greater capability of damaging users' hearing than headphones do.

Question 61

What are the basic differences between a cellphone and a smartphone?

Question 62

_________ is the continuous streaming of audio over the Internet.

Question 63

The ________ is the eye-level optical glass device on many cameras that,when you look through it,shows the image to be photographed.

Question 64

What is an MP3 player?

Question 65

What are some advantages and disadvantages of technological portability?

Question 66

Describe some of the societal effects of PMPs.

Question 67

Describe what podcasting is.

Question 68

What is the phenomenon known as convergence or digital convergence?

Question 69

Pandora,iHeart,and Slacker are examples of _________.

Question 70

________ TV lets you give responses to and get responses from the TV show that you are watching.

Question 71

________ refers to the wide set of technologies that enable viewers to select videos or TV programs from a central Internet server to watch when they want.

Question 72

Perhaps the most significant development involving TV programs is the shifting of television to the ________.

Question 73

What's the difference between a point-and-shoot camera and a single-lens reflex camera?

Question 74

_________ software allows people to create their own radio shows and offer them for free,or for subscription fees,over the Internet.

Question 75

How do satellite and hybrid digital radio differ?

Question 76

Name and describe five methods of transferring images from a digital camera.

Question 77

The major U.S.satellite radio company is ________.

Question 78

Podcast-receiving software is called a(n)________.

Question 79

A digital TV's width-to-height ratio is called the ________.

Question 80

The small _______ screen on a digital camera allows you to review all the photos that you have taken.