Post-It Notes

A Post-It Note is a piece of paper with a stick adhesive strip on one side of the paper, used to leave notes and reminders for yourself and others. This simple idea was not invented until 1968 by Dr. Spencer Silver, an engineer at 3M. I know how important this tool is because growing up I used these on a daily basis. I am one that if my head were not attached I am positive I would lose it, so these Post-It Notes are great to set on my front door with whatever reminder I may need for that day. My freshmen year my two closet doors were covered with Post-It Notes because my roommate and I decided to keep a "quote wall" with funny quotes from the year. The video below also shows some tricks that you can do with these "sticky notes."



















History of the Post-It Note

The Teleprompter

A teleprompter is a text display device that can be used to aid in reading text instead of a paper script of some sort. It was invented in the 1950's by Fred Barton Jr., Hubert J, Hub Schlafly, and Irving Berlin Kahn. Fred Barton was an actor who was in search of something to aid him in remembering his lines. This was a big step in media because it became a tool used regularly by presidents, news anchors, and actors/actresses to eliminate the need of memorization. It cleaned up speeches and acting making what we watch on TV easier to understand and overall more entertaining to watch. It can even be used in concerts for artists who have trouble remembering lines to songs while performing. Teleprompters have aided TV, Movies, and music, which are 3 of the biggest media concepts in our world today. However sometimes the people reading the teleprompters can have trouble... check out the video!

History of the Teleprompter

Portable DVD Player

A Portable DVD Player is a device that you can watch DVD's on and bring with you on the go. Movies are a big part of our media, they have been since first created "Roundhay Garden Scene" was made in 1888. However it was not until 1998 that Panasonic had created the first ever portable DVD Player, which started a whole new tool for the world to view its movies. This player had a five inch LCD screen and built in speakers. Now when waiting for your airplane at the airport or waiting for a ride to pick you up wherever you were at you had the ability to watch your favorite movies to make the time go by faster. The fact that this invention was created shows how important movies are to our media, because of the fact that this item has been so successful and has advanced on to other technological devices. 

History of the Portable DVD Player

First Movie Made

Poster

A poster is a large printed piece of paper that usually has a picture or words or both that can be used as decoration, advertising, and many other things. The poster is a great form of mass communication, and this is how they began to come popular in Paris in the 1890's (When all the advancements had been made for posters to be all color posters). The streets of Europe and Asia became "streets of advertising" due to the many posters that lined them up and down. Today posters are used for all the same reasons, however they just have many more posters to choose from, and you can actually create your own poster. Posters are a way of showing your personality in something like your room or household, or are great for advertising any type of product in any type of place.

History of Posters

The Grill

The grill is a cooking device that can be used outside, commonly used to cook such things as burgers, brats, hot dogs, chicken, steak, basically any type of meat or food you want to grill. The first step to the grill being invented was the indigenous people who cooked there meat on a rack in the middle of a smoky fire, it evolved to the advanced grills that we have today. This is a source of media because the grill brings people together. Families are known to have "barbecue's" where everyone gathers and food is made on the grill, this applies to team gatherings, graduation parties, or any other type of gathering that involves food. If people are coming together, the grill is the perfect thing to cook with to please the crowd.



History of the BBQ Grill

Electronic Message Boards

An electronic message board is something with a digital screen that can display any type of information to people that cross its path. It is commonly used in front of banks telling the temperature, in schools to display current school news for students in the hallways, and many other reasons. These boards are convenient because they can be changed to say whatever is desired, and are also very easy to operate. It saves the hassle of having to write something down on a big board, hope it doesn't get erased, and then go through the hassle of doing that all over again. These message boards are a great resource of information to people that cross their path, and can be very valuable depending on what information is given on it.

LED Sign Authority

GPS (Global Positioning System)

A GPS or Global Positioning system is something that was first invented by Ivan Getting and the U.S. Government and used to pinpoint anything ships and submarines, could measure Mount Everest, and make overall measurements and pinpoint locations within only a centimeter! In today's world GPS is used commonly in cars to help navigate you to where you need to go. It is much easier than the previously used paper map, that you have to read and follow. In many cars the GPS system will literally tell you when to turn, making it much easier and safer to drive. This is an example of media because the GPS uses the voice of a person to aid you in where you are going. This video is a spoof on the power and intelligence of the GPS, but I would not doubt that in the future this is possible!

History of the GPS