whats on your thing
that thing in your hand that tells you stuff
considering the mobile in art, culture, and technology.
Photo taken of Peter taking a photo of Tumblr with a photo taken of Tumblr, put on Tumblr. Out-meta that.
I retumbled your photo of Peter taking a photo of tumblr photos which were taken. I can probably be beat but I’m pretty uber meta now.
“The technology is rewiring our brains,” said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse and one of the world’s leading brain scientists. She and other researchers compare the lure of digital stimulation less to that of drugs and alcohol than to food and sex, which are essential but counterproductive in excess.
Technology use can benefit the brain in some ways, researchers say. Imaging studies show the brains of Internet users become more efficient at finding information. And players of some video games develop better visual acuity.
More broadly, cellphones and computers have transformed life. They let people escape their cubicles and work anywhere. They shrink distances and handle countless mundane tasks, freeing up time for more exciting pursuits.
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Concentration is no longer a given; it has to be strategized, fought for. But when it is achieved it can yield experiences that are more rewarding for being singular and hard-won. To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one’s essential position.
Obama’s Phone: The World’s Most Secure Phone by ‘Sectera Edge’
The Sectera Edge uses SCIP, or Secure Communications Interoperability Protocol, along with HAIPE IS — High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor Interoperability Specification (try saying that three times fast) — to create connections with classified government networks. Its feature list even includes the specific option to “exchange secure e-mail with government personnel.”
Price: $3,350
New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears
Stranger things have happened
Square is a new mobile payments system built to accept credit cards on iPhones and iPads. Selling a couch at a garage sale? Whip out your thing.
Gunnar Optics : Because your iPod touch games need to be experienced through yet another piece of glass.
