Gizmos in the Gazebo

The gazebo is the most crowded area in Ateneo. It is similar to a jungle filled with business where you can find students doing there homework, requirement, and idleness. But mostly, the gazebo is home to the most techy students of the school, and these students are armed with the most advanced set of gadgets.

Gadgets are known to be the sword and shield of the students in the gazebo, and with the midyear just passed, new gadgets release have been set. The laptops, portable speakers, and iphone 4s that we most often see in the gazebo might be phased out this year by the new gadgets that are coming out.

The first and most long awaited gadget that would spark everyone's interest might be the new iphone 5. With its release just within this month, many students have considered trading in there new iphone 4s to acquire this new gadget. Even with its overpriced value, more and more students are seemed to be fascinated with the new technology called the LTE which is said to be faster than a regular wifi connection. This new edge that the iphone has is just one of the many upgrades that it took since its recent predecessor, the iphone 4.

Gaming laptops have also been sighted to increase in number as the school year progressed. Most students with laptops stay in the gazebo for an extended period of time not just to study but to indulge in an epic gameplay of their choice. Although, there is no specific brand of laptop that overpowers the rest, the most common sticker that you can see in these laptops is the trademark of NVIDIA, a company well known for making Graphics processing Unit. Simply said, NVIDIA makes any game faster, more defined and more realistic. More on NVIDIA, keep your heads up on the rising 3D gaming laptops that are rising in release this year.

Due to the construction that is going on, the exponential increase of the population in the gazebo has cause the gazebo volume to extend its noise - turning the gazebo into a catastrophic ensemble of disaster. To keep up with this noise, students who are in need of dance practice or movie editing have resorted to either earphones or portable speakers. High definition earphones have taken over the classics with the most common brand that overwhelms others - beats. Also in the audio category, portable speakers are now coming into field in the hall near the gazebo for dance practice.

With the gazebo slowly becoming a hive for the techs, more and more demands are being brought up to the school. The most common of demands is the faster router for faster internet connection. The wifi system of the school is the foremost its tech world.

As more and more students are gathered in Ateneo gazebo, the school is warned to prepare for a greater energy consumption and vast number of students asking for more plug outlets. Only time will whether the new building would help reduce the number of students in the gazebo when it is finished or not.