Neuroscience
Apple's new iPhone.
Hmmm, and my current cell phone contract is up in March ...
edited to add: see David Pogue's New York Times column on the topic, and also his answers to frequently asked questions about the iPhone.
- Handedness
From The New York Times: On the Left Hand, There Are No Easy Answers By PERRI KLASS, M.D. The New York Times Published: March 6, 2011 "The riddle of why about 10 percent of people are born with the left-dominant variety of this essentially human asymmetry...
- Data Collection Via Iphone
Bits: If You’re Happy and You Know It, Tell Your Phone By Jenna Wortham Published: July 29, 2009 A Harvard graduate student is surveying iPhone users to help answer an age-old question: What makes people happy? click here to read...
- Mind Not On The Road?
If you're driving and talking on a cell phone, your mind isn't on the road. Period. And the problem isn't the the physical act of dialing, holding the phone, or listening to the person on the other end. The impairment comes from speaking;...
- The Digital Divide, C'est Nous?
Tom Freidman's August 3, 2005 column in the New York Times is disturbing: he reports that the US is 16th in the world for broadband connectivity (disturbing for a librarian, he doesn't cite his source). He also mentions how primitive it would...
- Optical Illusions
From David Pogue's New York Times blog comes this: Technology / Pogues Posts: A Wacky Persistence of Vision Test New York Times, June 10, 2005 By DAVID POGUE This wild and wacky persistence-of-vision test is a new one on me. There is absolutely, positively...
Neuroscience
Want One
Apple's new iPhone.
Hmmm, and my current cell phone contract is up in March ...
edited to add: see David Pogue's New York Times column on the topic, and also his answers to frequently asked questions about the iPhone.
- Handedness
From The New York Times: On the Left Hand, There Are No Easy Answers By PERRI KLASS, M.D. The New York Times Published: March 6, 2011 "The riddle of why about 10 percent of people are born with the left-dominant variety of this essentially human asymmetry...
- Data Collection Via Iphone
Bits: If You’re Happy and You Know It, Tell Your Phone By Jenna Wortham Published: July 29, 2009 A Harvard graduate student is surveying iPhone users to help answer an age-old question: What makes people happy? click here to read...
- Mind Not On The Road?
If you're driving and talking on a cell phone, your mind isn't on the road. Period. And the problem isn't the the physical act of dialing, holding the phone, or listening to the person on the other end. The impairment comes from speaking;...
- The Digital Divide, C'est Nous?
Tom Freidman's August 3, 2005 column in the New York Times is disturbing: he reports that the US is 16th in the world for broadband connectivity (disturbing for a librarian, he doesn't cite his source). He also mentions how primitive it would...
- Optical Illusions
From David Pogue's New York Times blog comes this: Technology / Pogues Posts: A Wacky Persistence of Vision Test New York Times, June 10, 2005 By DAVID POGUE This wild and wacky persistence-of-vision test is a new one on me. There is absolutely, positively...