Gadgets & Gizmos (Sep09)

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Slide 1: revised: 09/02/09 Slide 2: Digital Media, Gadgets,Gizmos, & your Library revised: 09/02/09 Slide 3: Digital Media, Gadgets,Gizmos, & your Library Scott Kehoe, Technology Consultant Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System (NMRLS), Danvers, Mass. 978-762-4433 x16 / scott@nmrls.org / www.nmrls.org IM me @: AOL-bibliotechy / MSN-bibliotekky /Yahoo!-biblioteky links for this workshop and more @: http://del.icio.us/bibliotechy/gadgets Scott’s websites on related topics @: Digital Media & the Library - http://www.nmrls.org/ce/digitalmedia.htm Scott’s Tech Tips / STT blog- http://www.nmrls.org/ce/stt/ revised: 09/02/09 Slide 4: Been to the “record store” lately? Where’s the music? Slide 5: Been to the “record store” lately? Where’s the music? Slide 7: Who sells the most music in the U.S.? Slide 8: Who sells the most music in the U.S.? Slide 9: Who sells the most music in the U.S.? Apple Inc. ~ iTunes ~ online! Slide 10: Who sells the most music in the U.S.? Apple Inc. ~ iTunes ~ online! More than Wal-Mart, Best Buy, or Target Slide 11: TRENDS Slide 12: TRENDS cheaper iPhone 8GB: June 2007 = $600, June 2009 = $99 Slide 13: TRENDS cheaper iPhone 8GB: June 2007 = $600, June 2009 = $99 WiFi cell phones, smart phones, iPod Touch, Nintendo DSi Slide 14: TRENDS cheaper iPhone 8GB: June 2007 = $600, June 2009 = $99 WiFi cell phones, smart phones, iPod Touch, Nintendo DSi touch screens iPhone, Blackberry Storm, Palm Pre, Nintendo DSi, Sony Reader Slide 15: TRENDS cheaper iPhone 8GB: June 2007 = $600, June 2009 = $99 WiFi cell phones, smart phones, iPod Touch, Nintendo DSi touch screens iPhone, Blackberry Storm, Palm Pre, Nintendo DSi, Sony Reader e-book readers Sony & OverDrive, K-12 market Slide 16: TRENDS cheaper iPhone 8GB: June 2007 = $600, June 2009 = $99 WiFi cell phones, smart phones, iPod Touch, Nintendo DSi touch screens iPhone, Blackberry Storm, Palm Pre, Nintendo DSi, Sony Reader e-book readers Sony & OverDrive, K-12 market Apps software to on smart phones/touch screen devices Slide 17: What’s an App? Slide 18: What’s an App? • Apps = programs that perform one task or related tasks on a portable device / smart phone. Slide 19: What’s an App? • Apps = programs that perform one task or related tasks on a portable device / smart phone. • App Examples = calendar, address book, stocks, weather, Google Maps, Facebook, Texas Hold’Em ... Slide 20: What’s an App? • Apps = programs that perform one task or related tasks on a portable device / smart phone. • App Examples = calendar, address book, stocks, weather, Google Maps, Facebook, Texas Hold’Em ... • Mobile devices using Apps: iPhone Google phones Blackberry Palm Treo & Pre iPod Touch Slide 21: What’s an App? • Apps = programs that perform one task or related tasks on a portable device / smart phone. • App Examples = calendar, address book, stocks, weather, Google Maps, Facebook, Texas Hold’Em ... • Mobile devices using Apps: iPhone Google phones Blackberry Palm Treo & Pre iPod Touch Slide 22: An App in Action Accessing the New York Times 1: Press NYTimes icon 2: Choose your section 3: Font size, email, save Slide 23: An App in Action Accessing the New York Times 1: Press NYTimes icon 2: Choose your section 3: Font size, email, save Slide 24: An App in Action Accessing the New York Times 1: Press NYTimes icon 2: Choose your section 3: Font size, email, save Slide 25: An App in Action Accessing the New York Times 1: Press NYTimes icon 2: Choose your section 3: Font size, email, save Slide 26: Apps working with other Apps 1: choose earthquake app 3: goto USGS website for details, pinch & slide to enlarge an earthquake 4: goto the map 2: choose an earthquake Slide 27: Apps working with other Apps 1: choose earthquake app 3: goto USGS website for details, pinch & slide to enlarge an earthquake 4: goto the map 2: choose an earthquake Slide 28: Apps working with other Apps 1: choose earthquake app 3: goto USGS website for details, pinch & slide to enlarge an earthquake 4: goto the map 2: choose an earthquake Slide 29: Apps working with other Apps 1: choose earthquake app 3: goto USGS website for details, pinch & slide to enlarge an earthquake 4: goto the map 2: choose an earthquake Slide 30: Apps working with other Apps 1: choose earthquake app 3: goto USGS website for details, pinch & slide to enlarge an earthquake 4: goto the map 2: choose an earthquake Slide 31: Your TV & DVR in your pocket? watch & record with i.TV app ... kinda ... Pick a show. View clips, previews, reviews. Wikipedia, photos. Pick a show. Record on TiVo Add to Netﬂix. Email a reminder. Slide 32: Your TV & DVR in your pocket? watch & record with i.TV app ... kinda ... Pick a show. View clips, previews, reviews. Wikipedia, photos. Pick a show. Record on TiVo Add to Netﬂix. Email a reminder. Slide 33: Your TV & DVR in your pocket? watch & record with i.TV app ... kinda ... Pick a show. View clips, previews, reviews. Wikipedia, photos. Pick a show. Record on TiVo Add to Netﬂix. Email a reminder. Slide 34: Your TV & DVR in your pocket? watch & record with i.TV app ... kinda ... Pick a show. View clips, previews, reviews. Wikipedia, photos. Pick a show. Record on TiVo Add to Netﬂix. Email a reminder. Slide 35: Your TV & DVR in your pocket? watch & record with i.TV app ... kinda ... Pick a show. View clips, previews, reviews. Wikipedia, photos. Pick a show. Record on TiVo Add to Netﬂix. Email a reminder. Slide 36: Your TV & DVR in your pocket? watch & record with i.TV app ... kinda ... Pick a show. View clips, previews, reviews. Wikipedia, photos. Pick a show. Record on TiVo Add to Netﬂix. Email a reminder. Slide 37: Scott’s Ideal Library App NOBLE MVLC Slide 38: Scott’s Ideal Library App • access my patron record • renew & reserve items • view my overdue & hold notices • search catalog • download e-books, audiobooks & video directly to my device • IM with a Librarian MassAnswers MVLC NOBLE Like This! Slide 39: Cell Phones Jitterbug iPhone T-Mobile G1 “Google Phone” Slide 40: Smart Phones Not-So-Smart-Phones • • Apple iPhone started a revolution! -introduced June 2007 -iPhone 3G, 3 million sold in ﬁrst weekend, July 2008 -17.5 million total iPhones through Dec. 2008 -In 2 years Apple becomes 3rd largest phone manufacturer behind Nokia & Samsung • • • • Simple basic phones that just make calls Jitterbug • • Google piles on! T-Mobile G1 using Android sales forecasts over a half million by end of 2008? Phone companies want to be Hollywood ... Overpriced music and video and pictures and text messages ... • • • More all-in-one touch-screen devices! Bluetooth (hands-free, “safe” for driving) Unlocked phones! Phones not tied to carriers or contracts! Smart Phones are expensive! EXAMPLE iPhone = $199 2-year contract @ $70/month = $1680 Total after 2 years = $1879* does NOT include 15¢ ~ 20¢ per Text-Message or accessories (cases, cables, software Apps). Slide 41: iPods Slide 42: iPods • Apple has sold over 150 MILLION iPods in since 2001, 26 million iPhones since 2007 • • • • • • • Chrysler has sold 12 million mini-vans in 25 years ... since 1982 Apple sells at least 10 million every three months (Ars Technica, 4/23/08) iPods hold nearly 80% of U.S. market-share (Digital Music News June 23, 2006, NPD Group) iPod-ready cars & airlines Apple iTunes #1 music retailer in U.S. (Ars Technica 4/2/08) iTunes has sold over 6 Billion songs online since 2003 (Ars Technica, 3/09) April 2009 - Variable pricing - 69cents to $1.29 based on popularity, ALL no-DRM! Slide 43: other MP3 players ... Slide 44: other MP3 players ... • Trends: • • • • • iPod & iTunes dominance continued use of DRM (digital right management) confusing options: devices & services & multiple DRM schemes more legal MP3s choices - amazon.com MP3 Downloads: http://www.amazon.com/MP3-Music-Download ... no easy choices for libraries ... Slide 45: e-readers & e-paper the future of books??? Slide 46: e-readers & e-paper the future of books??? • Amazon.com Kindle 2 (February’09 - $359) / Kindle DX (May ’09 - $489) • continuous WiFi via Sprint cellular network, no docking • The future of Textbooks!? • e-paper: ﬂexible, ultra-thin. Future: wireless, color, cheap • making other gadgets more smaller & slimmer •Sony Reader & OverDrive and your Library??? Slide 47: digital paper • • • • Newspapers • • • • Seattle Post-Intelligencer PC Magazine law, science <-link Magazines Academic Text Books large-format e-readers Kindle DX <-link Slide 48: DRM & audiobooks Slide 49: DRM & audiobooks DRM = Digital Rights Management Slide 50: DRM & audiobooks DRM = Digital Rights Management DRM is software built into the individual ebooks titles Slide 51: DRM & audiobooks DRM = Digital Rights Management DRM is software built into the individual ebooks titles DRM is software built into the e-readers like the Kindle, iPhone, iPod Touch Slide 52: DRM & audiobooks DRM = Digital Rights Management DRM is software built into the individual ebooks titles DRM is software built into the e-readers like the Kindle, iPhone, iPod Touch DRM knows where it is allowed to play & where it isn’t! Slide 53: DRM & audiobooks DRM = Digital Rights Management DRM is software built into the individual ebooks titles DRM is software built into the e-readers like the Kindle, iPhone, iPod Touch DRM knows where it is allowed to play & where it isn’t! Most ebook formats used by Amazon.com, iTunes, Audible.com, and OverDrive use built-in DRM components. (Exception: MP3 audio format) Slide 54: DRM & audiobooks DRM = Digital Rights Management DRM is software built into the individual ebooks titles DRM is software built into the e-readers like the Kindle, iPhone, iPod Touch DRM knows where it is allowed to play & where it isn’t! Most ebook formats used by Amazon.com, iTunes, Audible.com, and OverDrive use built-in DRM components. (Exception: MP3 audio format) DRM is why you can’t use an iPod with most OverDrive audiobooks Slide 55: DRM & audiobooks DRM = Digital Rights Management DRM is software built into the individual ebooks titles DRM is software built into the e-readers like the Kindle, iPhone, iPod Touch DRM knows where it is allowed to play & where it isn’t! Most ebook formats used by Amazon.com, iTunes, Audible.com, and OverDrive use built-in DRM components. (Exception: MP3 audio format) DRM is why you can’t use an iPod with most OverDrive audiobooks DRM may go away ... LOL ;-) Slide 56: Publishing = Big Media Who owns who? Slide 57: Publishing = Big Media Who owns who? Bertelsmann (Germany) > Ballantine, Bantam, Del Ray, Dell, Doubleday, Fawcett, Knopf, Pantheon, Random House CBS Corp > Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, The Free Press, Scribner Disney > Hyperion, Marvel Comics Hachette Book Group (France) > Little, Brown News Corp > Harper Collins Pearson PLC (U.K.) > Addison-Wesley, Dorling Kindersley, Grosset & Dunlap, Penguin, Prentice Hall, Viking Riverdeep (Ireland) > Houghton-Mifﬂin, Reed Elsevier Scholastic > Grolier Time-Warner > DC Comics Slide 58: Who’s got Game? Pew Internet & American Life Surveys Report, Sept. 2008 & Data Memo, December 2008 Slide 59: Who’s got Game? Pew Internet & American Life Surveys Report, Sept. 2008 & Data Memo, December 2008 • 53% of all American adults play video games • • 81% of 18-29 year olds play video games 21% adult gamers play every day • 36% of age 65+ gamers play everyday • • • • • 76% teens play online games 66% of parents with children under 18 play games 2% of gamers overall / 11% teens visit virtual worlds 9% of gamers overall / 21% teens play MMOGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Games: World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars) (e.g. Second Life) Gamer Proﬁle: 55% male 56% urbanites 57% college educated 62% annual income $50,000+ no signiﬁcant ethnic differences among game players Slide 60: Gaming consoles get your exercise! Slide 61: Gaming consoles get your exercise! ➡ Nintendo Wii ➡ Microsoft XBox 360 ➡ Sony PlayStation 3 / PlayStation 2 ➡ Library games ➡ Dance, Dance, Revolution ➡ Guitar Hero ➡ Wii Sports Slide 62: Video made easy ~ Flip Video Slide 63: Video made easy ~ Flip Video • • • • • • simple digital video camera includes built-in: USB connector ~ microphone ~ display ~ software just plug it into your PC or Mac to upload to YouTube or you own website $130 ~ $180 Great for Library programs/events/ speakers (with written consent from participants) a secret ... the digital camera you already own does the same thing and probably better ... Slide 64: Flash-drives thumb drive ~ ﬂash drive ~ jump drive ~ key drive ~ thumb key ~USB key ~ USB stick ~ USB fob ~ memory stick … Slide 65: Flash-drives thumb drive ~ ﬂash drive ~ jump drive ~ key drive ~ thumb key ~USB key ~ USB stick ~ USB fob ~ memory stick … PROS • • • • • No formatting, just plug and it works on any computer! Ability to run self-contained software (email, browser, word processor) Getting cheaper and memory capacity growing, 4GB/$30! CONS Not a permanent backup device, will wear out from excessive use Static electricity may damage or ruin Slide 66: MacBook Air ThinkPad X300 OLPC = One Laptop Per Child Hp Mini-Note UMPC Asus Eee PC Intel Classmate Slide 67: MacBook Air Net • • • • Hp Mini-Note 0 d X30 a ThinkP k Air & ote PC acBoo -N pple M p Mini A H 99) & thin: 2 ultraPC ($ e sus Ee ThinkPad X300 eap: A le PC) h i a-mob ltra-c u tr PC (ul M te assma all: U l Intel C tra-sm ul LPC & O OLPC = One Laptop Per Child sion: mis a with ks & boo ops apt L UMPC Asus Eee PC Intel Classmate Slide 68: Blu-ray DVD Slide 69: Blu-ray DVD high-deﬁnition video DVD format stores 25 GB ~ 50GB disc players: $250+ ﬁlms: $25 - $60 per disc Sony’s gaming console, Playstation3, features a Blu-ray DVD player, both for games and movies another format for libraries to stock ... Slide 70: Where to get more info from Scott Slide 71*: Where to get more info from Scott • • • • • Scott’s gadget, webware, and all-things digital blog: STT http://www.nmrls.org/ce/stt/ Scott's del.icio.us techy & gadget bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/bibliotechy Scott’s all-things digital media website: http://www.nmrls.org/ce/digitalmedia.htm These slides online (for sharing) at Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/skaasz Scott Kehoe, Technology Consultant, NMRLS scott@nmrls.org / 978-762-4433 x16 IM: AIM-bibliotechy / MSN-bibliotekky /Yahoo!-biblioteky Follow NMRLS on Twitter & Facebook