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Students Worry About iPhone Addiction

Students Worry About iPhone Addiction…..A survey of 200 Stanford University students found that more than a third heard concerns that they used their iPhones too much while about 75 percent said that owning the device made them happier.

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TAT augmented ID

Augmented ID is a TAT concept that visualizes the digital identities of people you meet in real life. With a mobile device and face recognition software from Polar Rose, Augmented ID enables you to discover selected information about people around you. All users control their own augmented appearance, by selecting the content and social network links they want show to others

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A number of problems are tied to factories run by Taiwanese company Foxconn, which China Labor Watch has described as having “inhumane and militant management” which in one instance caused an employee to leap to his death after accusations that he stole an iPhone prototype. Apple has ordered extensive reviews of the factories in question but has not stopped using them to manufacture products.

— Apple Admits to Child Labor - The Daily Beast

youmightfindyourself:

one for business, one for gash.

Reblogged from YMFY

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Shopping for mobile phones under the color scheme designed by Google.

Reblogged from the space of the not/ebook

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You are Not a Gadget - A Manifesto

Jaron Lanier

Read a review. Buy the book.

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Numbers on my thing

unhappyhipsters:

He had a hard time distinguishing the relationship between needs, wants, and technology.

(Photo: Catherine Ledner; Dwell, July/August 2007)

Reblogged from Unhappy Hipsters

Multitouch Rotary Dial and X-Y Granular Exploration

“This video illustrates a sound art performance application that I’m developing in MaxMSP. The control is handled with TouchOSC on the iPhone or iPod Touch.”