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Mein Name ist Nur Atikah Binti Ismail. Ich bin 24 Jahre alt. Ich war an einem warmen, sonnigen Tag im Januar 1989 geboren, meine Eltern Ismail Bin Husin und Saerah Binti Othman. Ich bin das einzige Mädchen in meine Geschwister und ich habe vier Brüder nämlich Muhammad Fairuz, Muhammad Hafiz Muhammad Faiz und Muhammad Hariz. Ich lebe und bis auf Pengkalan Balak, Melaka mit meiner kostbaren Familie gebracht. Mein bisheriges Leben ist von einer wunderbaren Familie, gute Freunde und eine kleine erfolgreiche hatte ich zusammen.

My name is Nur Atikah Binti Ismail. I am 24 years old. I was born on a warm, sunny day in January 1989, to my parent Ismail Bin Husin and Saerah Binti Othman. I am the only girl in my siblings and I have four brothers namely Muhammad Fairuz, Muhammad Hafiz, Muhammad Faiz and Muhammad Hariz. I live and brought up at Pengkalan Balak, Melaka with my precious family. My life so far is comprised of a wonderful family, great friends and a small successful I had.

Presently, I am final year student at University Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Shah Alam and currently aiming to graduate my Master in Business Administration in the near future. Doing my master is goals in my life and it began smoothly to accomplish it. I wish and set a high hope that I will be able to enter and have a chance studying in abroad one day. Now, I was more than happy because my dreams come true for which I was waiting so long. 

Participating in a student exchange program is perfect opportunity for me as a student to visit foreign countries to learn more about their cultures and language. I do appreciate because I've such wonderful experienced in dealing with people of different background and perhaps with different beliefs and values. This also will help me to observe and discover sophisticated technologies in Germany. Here, I would like to share a priceless moment during studying in abroad. 
As one of the world’s emerging economies and technologies, I think the Malaysians could examine the process on how German turned out to be one of the most promising countries. In order for me to complete my final semester, I'd been asked by my lecturer, Prof.Madya Dr. Norzaidi Bin Mohd Daud to create a blog about current technologies as a part of my MIS750 project paper. Since i am able to discover German technologies with my own eyes, thus my blog will entertain you about the technologies and systems they applied in their business operations and daily life. Feel free to read :)

Barcelona City Tour Bus or "Hop On and Hop Off Sightseeing Tourist Buses" is a popular way to view Barcelona City. I was pleasantly surprised by the experience as a first time traveler by riding the tour bus in Barcelona. I have always tended to write off the concept of a tourist bus tour as only for those who have no interest in truly understanding a city. From the tour, I managed to obtain a better understanding of the layout of the city and I had fun.

The Barcelona City Tour is operated by Julia Tours & Grupo Moventis which is a large Spanish Transportation Company in Spain. The bus city tour has 2 different routes to explore the city which are the Orange Line and Green Line. The tour will highlight all the things to do in the city so that the tourist can hop on and off at more than 44 stops provided. The key sights and world famous attractions of this fantastic city are included on the tour route. Click here to know the place covered by the Orange Line and Green Line.

Barcelona tour bus makes both options possible and convenient. There are some hitches in the service and systems provided on boarding the bus. On first entering the bus, they provide us with a paper map to accompany our journey. It is useful because the map shows the route line and allows travelers to figure out what there is of interest in the vicinity of each bus stop. They also provide us wit a small set of disposable headphones.

Those who do not wish to have commentary during their journey can choose not to wear the headphones but there is no commentary on loud speakers. Commentary is provided by way of a lady's recorded voice. The information is sporadic and interspersed with classical music. On one of the buses that I boarded there were numerous occasions when the commentary was out of syncs with the area that the bus was travelling through. This normally occurred when the bus was stuck in traffic and had not yet reached the destination being discussed. This was usually rectified within approximately five minutes. The bus staffs interrupt the recorded commentary when each new stop is reached. The information provided is very factual with lots of dates and names. This may suit true fact finders and history. 

The bus also provides a ramp at their back door and an area on the ground floor for wheelchair users. However, the top deck of the bus would be inaccessible to wheelchair users. Similar to a standard bus, it has a narrow, winding staircase to the open deck area. Here are some of the clearly picture of the Barcelona City Tour Bus for their valued passengers. 

 

 

The top deck of the bus 

 

Comfortable Seats  

   

Barcelona City Tour Bus Stop 

Barcelona City Tour is a new official touristic bus service that shows us the city from a new perspective which we can SEE, HEAR & ENJOY!

HEAR. The audio guide system service provides me all the information on the city and its most attractive places and monuments.

ENJOY. With the two new Barcelona City Tour routes, I enjoyed the most emblematic areas of the city and discover the new Barcelona, from the spectacular Agbar Tower to the city’s new beaches. 

Assalammualaikum.. I'm sure you guys wondering with my entry's title for this time right? What kind of technology Mercedes Benz used at their museum? Ahhaa... that's what I would like to share with you guys about the fascination technology at Mercedes-Benz Museum which is TTS 300 Wireless Translation & Tour Guide System.

In my experience visit the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, I feel like entering the only place in the world capable of documenting the history of the automobile from its very beginning because the museum will take you on a journey back in time to the year 1886. For this where the legend begins, with the pioneering invention by Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz who developed the Mercedes-Benz automobile. Let me introduce a little bit about the uniqueness of this museum before we go further to the main title. 

One sunny day, I walked through near to the Stuttgart City Street to buy souvenir for my beloved family. I was enjoyed walking alone on that day before I leave Germany. Suddenly, I was really shocked that thing happened in front of my eyes is like miracle and reminds me to my younger brother. What was actually happened on that day?

 

Stuttgart City

I wondered and I could still remember the day I watch iRobot as a teen and being skeptical about my brother's statement that one day, but the driverless car become reality nowadays. And the reality made possible by a search engine company, Google. YES IT IS TRUE! The fairytale story really happened in front of me and Google finally has something to show for its work.

 
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The Google Driverless Car is powered by artificial intelligence that utilizes the input from the video cameras inside the car, a sensor on the vehicle’s top, and some radar and position sensors attached to different positions of the car. Sounds like a lot of effort to mimic the human intelligence in a car, but so far the system has successfully driven 1609 kilometers without human commands! Google also add that their driverless car is safer and smoother than actual driver. The technology and system are clearly illustrates below:

Google has been testing autonomous cars on public roads since 2010, and it always has someone in the driver's seat. But now, Google has proved that their driverless car project is successfully controlled by the computer and radar. In order to prove this fairytale story, I would like to share a video on how this autonomous car is working. Let's check it out and enjoy the video!

Do you really need a different machine for every single service in your daily life? Or can one machine fulfill several functions? The answer is YES since applications, smart phones, social media are the digital world and reality that melting into one. Vending machines are also part of the digital sphere surrounding us. Vending machines have gone through significant changes and innovations in the developed countries.

A Vending Machine is machines which dispense items such as snacks, beverages, alcohol, cigarettes, lottery, tickets, cologne, consumer products and even gold and gems are served automatically to customers after the customers insert currency or credit into the machine. This is what I found in Germany, Spain and France.  

Along my experienced in Stuttgart, I have found various types of vending machine which are do not available in Malaysia. The vending machines are really innovative self-service technology and convenient to the users. Here are some of my favorite vending machines in Germany:

 

The area covered by VVS
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VVS transit maps for u-bahn & s-bahn train
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HFT Student ID cards contain a photograph and basic personal details of the cardholder. The card also contains a visible magnetic stripe.  Inside the card there is a chip and antenna. The magnetic stripe, chip and antenna all store information about the cardholder and their access to buildings on campus and other purposes. Below is an example of a HFT Student ID card:

 

HFT Student ID card 

I was enjoyed using these ID card provided by the university because the systems used was efficient and convenient for students. Furthermore, I don't need to worry if I forget to bring cash because everything can be solved by the student ID card. I just need to reload the money into the card with vending machine provided at the university and dormitory. 

The Student ID card provided by the Hochschule fur Technik (HFT) University is multi-purpose. Students really enjoy that convenience of being able to use one card for everything. The student ID card is valid for the entire duration of study and serves a number of important functions with swipe of one card which are many HFT students can eat dinner, buy snacks, wash a load of laundry, check out library books, photocopy homework, access a campus computer lab, open locked doors, and as a ticket for public transportation in Stuttgart on evenings and weekends. Picture below shows some of the HFT student ID card functions:

 

Vending Machine to reload student ID card

The dryer and washing machine at dormitory

HFT library where students can borrowing and issuing the book