Electronic world: how we use electronics in daily life
The use of electronics today is such an important part of our daily lives that we hardly think about what the world would be like without electronics. Everything from cooking to music uses electronic or electronic components in some way. Our family car has many electronic components, as does our kitchen, laptop, and cell phone. Children and teenagers carry mobile phones with them everywhere and use them to take and send photos, videos and play music. They send text messages on their cell phone to other phones and to their home computers.
Wireless internet is becoming more and more common, with laptops set up in internet cafes where people can have coffee and check email at the same time. The computer user can perform all web searches with relative privacy thanks to the electronic accessories that can be added to the computer. Rather, more and more transactions are being sent electronically over radio waves, making security a bigger issue than ever. Merchants selling products online must be able to assure their customers that unauthorized personnel are not accessing information submitted on a website.
Music is one of the main users of electronics, both in recording and playback mode. Stereos, turntables, tape recorders, cassette players, CD players, and DVD players are the result of advances in electronic technology in recent decades. Today, people can easily carry a playlist of hundreds of songs with them on a very small, easily portable device. When you add Bluetooth or headphones, the user can listen to the music, but it doesn’t disturb those around.
Electronic technology in cameras has increased dramatically. A digital camera is available to most Americans at a price they can afford and cell phones often include a fairly sophisticated digital camera that can capture still images or even video images and store or transfer them to a computer where they can be saved. , share digitally with family or friends, or hard-printed with a photo printing device. Images obtained through a camera or through a scanner can be easily edited, cropped, enhanced or enlarged through the marvel of electronics.
Literally thousands of everyday devices that we constantly use use electronic technology to function. These are products ranging from automobile engines to automated equipment in production environments. Even artistic endeavors benefit from computer modeling before committing valuable artistic means to create the finished product.
Electronic devices are being used in the healthcare field, not only to aid in the diagnosis and determination of medical problems, but to aid in research that provides treatment and cures for diseases and even genetic abnormalities. Equipment such as MRI, CT and older X-rays, diabetes tests, cholesterol, and other blood component tests rely on electronics to do their jobs quickly and accurately. Pacemakers and similar equipment implanted in the body are now almost routine.