A perfect partner

My day starts with snoozing the alarm five times before ‘actually’ waking up, reading mails and news before having a short breakfast, listening to music and getting ready for office. On the way to office read some articles, check some social media sites and reply to mail/messages while the entire day is jammed with meetings and writing notes or presenting. And doze off watching a series/movie or may be listening to soothing music.

Using a laptop would be cumbersome in the morning just after you wake up and hurry to go office. If I have a chance I could be easily using Yoga tablet in stand mode in kitchen while hurrying for breakfast before office. While stressing to read and reply to mails on the way to office, Yoga tablet in tilt mode could be more comfortable to work with.  I can use tilt mode while making notes or presentations in office and hold mode for reading or browsing. Back at home playing Real Racing game using tilt mode and stand mode to watch my favorite series or a movie in Yoga tablet, is a better way of course!

I would expect my ideal tablet to have a complete one day of  battery life- a solid 24 hours of usage on a single charge, that would help to use it a couple of days without hitting the charger. That’s when I can use it without hesitation while on a trip. Listening to music (stored or streaming from the cloud) from my ideal tablet would require stereo speakers with decent audio playback just enough to play my imaginary guitar. My ideal tablet needs a screen with retina-display technology making text crispy to larger extent (as reading is a common usage) eliminating eye strain. How about 256 GB of internal storage (of course, with memory card slot to add more when needed)? Although I would do my share of keeping things in the cloud, but I want the option of stashing lots of music and video. A decent 12MP rear camera and 5MP of front camera for video calling to send great video quality would definitely elate my callers on the other side. As life is moving in accelerating speed, so I do expect my ideal tablet to have high-speed data transfer with other devices using Thunderbolt or FireWire technology.

As my wish list continues for features to be added to my ideal tablet, how about making tablets compatible for coding as well? Already we see Microsoft office and Iwork in tablets working fine for business purpose.

I wish someone makes a tablet that provides intelligent help to perform my office and home work. And give a local search engine that scans across my apartment to locate the object I am looking for and I can save my precious time and effort. Perfect tablet would never be built that satisfies everyone, there would   always be a section of customers wanting more based on their whims!

(P.S. This blog post is for Indiblogger contest Better way.)

A healthy baby code

It’s true that the solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. Maximum of the physical and mental health issues caused to people are somewhere related directly or indirectly to their childhood nutrition and habits.

Let’s time travel back to the point of time when the baby is in the mother’s womb. A healthy diet maintained by the mother helps the baby to grow healthy. Surveys have proven that the baby’s intelligence can be grown when it’s still in the womb by intake of food rich in Omega 3. The baby’s concentration power can be increased by listening to soothing music. A stressful mother is likely to affect her baby’s emotional development and IQ. It’s highly important not only to have knowledge of baby care after giving birth, but also during the pregnancy.

The fastest rate of learning is in infancy. It’s essential to understand what a child needs to develop into a healthy adult. Home environment and parenting influences a child’s health by shaping diet and physical behaviors. A child learns what he sees and hears during the formative years. If a child is brought up in a family with parental fights or divorce issues, he is going to face an emotional crisis or not having faith in relationships. In a happy family, a child learns about love, care, sacrifice, compromise, helping, etc. which helps later in his life. Kids, whose parents encourage exercising and eating healthily, are more likely to be active and healthy eaters in the future. Not providing access to fruits and vegetables or discouraging to play outside leads to obese and lethargic children. In order to promote healthy behaviors in children, parental role modeling and conducive environment is essential.

Apart from the haven of safety, a kid is also influenced by the external environment. It’s important on the part of adults in the kid’s life (relatives and teachers especially) to distinguish between media appropriate for kids and adults. Also as adults they should listen and respond to their concerns; wishes and needs, ensuring services remain focused on children. Engaging kids in games and activities that makes them use their brains in a smarter way is an effective way to increase their intelligence.

As children constitute a large proportion of the Indian population, they represent not just India’s future but are integral to securing India’s present. The Indian Government should form policies that make public institutions as a healthy environment for children to develop. ‘Being proactive’ and ‘solution oriented’ (both at home and Government level) can accelerate to provide a stronger, healthier, immune India – the kind that India requires at the earliest. 

(P.S. This blog post is an entry for Indiblogger contest- An Immune India from Dabur. )