New Century Global Centre

See http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/infrastructure/chinas-new-century-global-centre-worlds-largest-building/slideshow/20875656.cms for a slide show

In China they have been working on an incredible construction which is virtually a small town or village, inside a building. It is called the 'New Century Global Centre' and is the world’s largest building. It is 1.7 million square meters and opened very recently on the 28^th June and will house citizens, have vast shopping centres and just when you think it can’t get any more bizarre; it has an artificial beach with fake sea breezes to make it feel as if you are at an actual, real beach.

Source: http://www.rsvlts.com/2013/07/08/new-century-global-center/

This idea reminds me of the film 'The Truman Show' because if someone is born in an environment that they have never been out of, one day they will realise that during their whole life they have not been living in a small town but a building, and won't be familiar with reality or what's beyond where they have been living.

Here are some of the many features this building holds:

• A water park
• IMAX cinema
• Luxury shopping centres
• Offices
• A skating rink
• Hotels
• A pirate ship
• Mediterranean village

Just so you can’t picture the size of this building it can fit a whopping twenty Sydney Opera houses inside it! It has been built in Chengdu which has a population of fourteen million. In my opinion it is a unique and interesting idea but might have just been a waste of money considering the poverty and homelesness in China (http://www.china.org.cn/government/news/2008-09/13/content_16448084.htm), however I would like to experience something like this in my city.

Dolphins Have Names?

Do dolphins have names for each other? Well, a study run by Stephanie King between 1988 and 2004 was there to see if dolphins really did call each by name.

179 pairs of wild bottle nose dolphins off the coast of Florida where monitored on and it turns out ten of them had copied one pf the dolphins signature whistle, these sounds where what they used to identify one another. These clever dolphins only imitate the whistle of the other dolphin if they are separated or apart and respond with the same sound.

Some of the dolphins may just be copying the whistles because they hear them a lot or because they are calling each other. No other animal can copy whistles of each other but parrots may be able to.

Here is a link to an article in more detail about these dolphins. And here

App Reveiw

Power Cam

This app is very useful for taking pictures and editing them with a huge variety of effects from 1920s to blue explosions! Power Cam is very fun and it has a low cost of 69p, but it’s definitely worth it. . I would recommend this app to people of all ages because it is simple but has some brilliant features. I got the hang of using this app straight away because there isn’t a complicated lay out and it looks easy to use. Power Cam is also available for Android phones as well as Apple branded phones.  You can take pictures with this app but not only that, you can even choose a theme and make a video! The photos and videos you take create   an album in the app also all your photos get saved to your camera roll. 

   LEDit

I came across this app when I watched the 2012 Olympic games and saw all the Olympians holding their phones with personal messages travelling across the screen on them. I wondered what app they used and then stumbled across it. After that I now use the app to show people funny messages and show off what a good app I have! LEDit costs 69p and you can do all sorts to the font, size, colour and speed of how fast your message. It is easy to use and I have never seen an app like this before but really like it. I can’t really pick out any faults yet but I really think this app is different and you should  maybe try it out.

DeluxeFX

I saw many people on Instagram using this app so I thought I would try it out and it turned out to be a very high quality editing app. At a cost of 69p DeluxeFX lets you edit pictured from your library and transform them into a bright and colourful image. The only problem is that you cannot take a picture on the spot, what I mean by this is that you can only choose pictures from your camera roll to edit. The editing effects are very bright and make your image very eye catching. Although you can edit the light and vibrance you can also add something called overlays which ass a little extra to the image. For example an overlay I use most often is probably ‘sun ray’ which adds to the picture.