Digital Devices

• Digital device is a physical unit of equipment that contains a computer or microcontroller. Digital devices are used in all aspects of our lives, and in all different workplaces.
• For example, in our personal lives and while at school we use digital devices to educate ourselves, to entertain ourselves and to socialize with friends and family.

Let’s see some of the digital devices:

Digital devices	Description
Laptop	1. Laptops are small personal computers designed to be portable and give you quick access to files outside of the home or workplace. 2. They come in a variety of models and a range of sizes, memory capacities and processor speeds.
iPhone	1. The iPhone is a smartphone made by Apple that combines a computer, iPod, digital camera and cellular phone into one device with a touchscreen interface. 2. The iPhone runs the iOS operating system (OS), and as of 2017, there were 2.2 million apps available for it through the Apple App Store, according to Statista.
iPod	1. The iPod is a pocket-sized portable music-playing device produced by Apple and sold across the world. For example. 2. iPod Nano – lightweight iPod with touch-screen controls and up to 16GB of space for audio files. 3. iPod Classic – with up to 160GB of hard-drive storage space, plus the familiar ‘click wheel’ control.
DSLR Camera	1. A digital single-lens reflex camera is a digital camera that combines the optics and the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a digital imaging sensor. 2. The reflex design scheme is the primary difference between a DSLR and other digital cameras.
E-Readers	1. An e-reader, also called an e-book reader or e-book device, is a mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals.
Fitness Band	1. An activity tracker, also known as a fitness tracker, is a device or application. 2. It is used for monitoring and tracking fitness-related metrics such as distance walked or run, calorie consumption, and in some cases heartbeat. 3. It is a type of wearable computer.
Television	1. A television (also known as a TV) is a machine with a screen. 2. Televisions receive broadcasting signals and turn them into pictures and sound. 3. Computers and mobile devices also can be used for watching television programs.
Computer	1. A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming. 2. Modern computers have the ability to follow generalized sets of operations, called programs. 3. These programs enable computers to perform an extremely wide range of tasks.
Tablet	1. A tablet is a wireless touch screen personal computer (PC) that is smaller than a notebook but larger than a smartphone. 2. Modern tablets are built with wireless Internet or local area networks (LAN) and a variety of software applications, including business applications, Web browsers and games.

Interesting Facts:

• 8 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2020.
• More than 570 new websites are created every minute.
• 250 million hours of TV shows and movies are watched daily via Netflix.
• More than 56 million hours of music is streamed daily.
• Artificial intelligence will outperform humans in many activities in the next 10 years.
• There are approximately 5 billion smartphones currently in use around the world. In 2017, a total of 1.5 billion smartphones were sold.
• Ofcom’s report shows that adults in the UK check their smartphones every 12 minutes of the day.
• Smartphones are now so powerful that NASA currently has a fleet of them orbiting the earth as satellites. The PhoneSats are capable of taking high-resolution aerial photographs of any point on the planet.
• Google’s virtual assistant is able to speak and respond to questions exactly like a human.