We are currently spending around 23% of our online time on social network sites (Nielsen Internet, 2010). It's a 7% increase since last year this time. As such, social networking sites jump to the top of the list of online activities. Second most popular activity is playing online games (10%) and third - checking e-mail (8.3%). People spend more time on Facebook and Twitter and playing FarmVille, than browsing Google or searching videos online. It's a biggest shift of online trends in years.
We have on average 22 apps on our phones, from which 33% know our location, and 14% access our contacts (App Genome Project, 2010).
Browsing internet on iPad is better for your cognitive system (here defined as 'level of disorientation' and 'cognitive load') than browsing internet on your desktop computer. Demirbilek found that subject using the tiled-windows (tablet) interface were significantly less disoriented than subjects using an overlapping-windows interface. He also found that participants working with overlapping windows were substantially more likely to experience cognitive overload than those working with tiled windows (Demirbilek et al., 2010).
FDA has approved bionic telescopic eye implant (photo above). In clinical testing from VisionCare Ophthalmic 70% of over 200 patients "had their vision improve from severe or profound impairment to moderate impairment" (VisionCare, 2010).
Apple released their worst iPhone ever (see also Antenna-gate), and Amazon released their best Kindle so far. Both companies sold out within day or two.
Nintendo will release 3D version of their handheld console that won't require any special glasses, potentially starting a new revolution in 3D entertainment. Or bringing it down.
Violent dreams may indicate developing brain disease (Boeve et al., 2010).
Medical use of marihuana is having it's momentum, with research wide-spreading from multiple sklerosis and cancer to inflammation and anxiety (Seppa et al., 2010).
And the information chaos just keeps flowing through my mind...
[photo credit: VisionCare]
I don't understand the distinction between tiled-windows and overlapping-windows. How is iPad different in this respect from having your windows maximized on a PC? In both cases I see only one application at a time.
ReplyDeleteIt's no difference if the window is full screen, it's only different when tiled-windows are scattered separately, so when you have lets say three or more windows opened at the same time, all visible.
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