i bet i’m not the only one out here pondering whether an ipad is a good purchase or not… i also guess that like for macs in general, there are those completely ecstatic about it, no matter which flaws are
Reading on an iPad in before you go to sleep can keep you awake
That’s what this article in the LA Times tech blog says, and on pretty good authority too. Evidently light emitting devices like a cellphone or the iPad can cause the inhibition of the body’s secretion of melatonin, which is what
Concentration by Court Merrigan
Chris Meadows recently wrote on the sapping of our attention spans. In between clicks away to gmail, Facebook, and Chris’s own links, I was just able to read through to the end, and the comments after.
Now perhaps I am merely mentally lazy and weak, as Steve Jordan suggests, but I don’t think reclaiming your […]
More Amazon/Macmillan feud fallout, conversations, and conspiracy theories
TechCrunch’s M.G. Siegler reports that another “winner” in the Amazon vs. Macmillan feud is Barnes & Noble, who is getting a lot of new purchase traffic for books Amazon is currently unwilling to carry.
I would add, from the time I have spent reading various discussion forums about it, that a good many of the […]
Amazon purchases touch-screen startup; on e-ink, LCD, and eyestrain
One fairly big news item to hit today involves Amazon’s purchase of Touchco, a 6-person startup company with a new multitouch-capable, completely transparent touch-screen overlay technology.
A number of the blogs and news sources linking this story remark on how this technology is capable of use with the current multi-color LCD technology that drives the […]