What is archiving?
An archive is a collection of data moved to a repository for backup, to keep separate for compliance reasons or for moving off primary storage media. It can include a simple list of files or files organized under a directory or catalog structure (depending on how a particular program supports archiving.
TOPIC 5: sustainability:
Sustainability means that a process or state can be maintained at a certain level for as long as is wanted. … The Commission defined sustainable development as development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
The class was initiated by showing the virtual technologies that is happening in villages of India as well as in Pakistan where the internet is not reached to most of the areas.For this many great companies of mobile network such as AIRTEL organization is working for the people of villages where there is shortage of internet supplies.In which solar-powered technology makes phone charging and internet services available to all. We are laying the foundations for a future where everyone is connected.
BUFFALO GRID ,MOBILE POWER AND INTERNET FOR NEXT BILLION.LIFE IS BETTER WITH INTERNET..
This device is providing free charge to power mobile phones,sims and much more to the people where internet services and electricity has been in the shortage.
SCEWO:
Its seems so simple ETC Zurich develops the coolest wheel chair with self balancing and stair climbing technology .ETH start-up Scewo has built a power wheelchair, which can not only overcome stairs but also frequent obstacles like curbs, tram tracks, grass, mud or stones. Pascal Buholzer, Pioneer Fellow* at ETH Zurich, gives insight into their current work on a pre-series prototype.
What role does industrial design play for your stair climbing wheel chair?
The first thing that you may think of is the visual design. This is, of course, important, because we want users to enjoy the appearance of our product. We chose a modern and even a bit futuristic look,as well as giving comfortable seats for disable people.
NOT A BUGSPLAT:
A giant art installation targets predator drone operator.In military slang predator drone operators often refers to kill as bug splats ,since viewing the body through a grainy video image gives the sense of an insect being crushed.To challenge this insensitivity as well as awareness of civilian casualties ,an artist collective installed a massive portrait facing up in the heavily bombed Khyber Pukhtuankhwa region of Pakistan ,where drone attacks regularly occur .Now when viewed by a drone camera,what an operator sees on his screen is not an anonymous dot on the landscape ,but an innocent child victims face.
Documentary on H20 wheel:
Many villages of Pakistan specially that is facing the problem where women has to put a vessel on their heads to bring water from the well by going 2 to 3 km every day.Most of the women face a lot of issues of injuring and deaths because of incidents .So this video explains how the H20 wheel helped the local population in Tharparkar Sindh.
Tools & Technology in Art Education 