Category: Cognitive Science UX Research

  • Goodbye Sparrow: 8 Alternatives to Sparrow for Email

    lifehack.org So, you were look­ing for a great alter­na­tive to Apple’s Mail.app on OS X and iOS and stum­bled upon Spar­row. It was fast, han­dled mail in a com­fort­able and famil­iar Gmail fash­ion, and was full fea­tured. It was all good until you heard th… http://flip.it/WU03e Goodbye Sparrow: 8 Alternatives to Sparrow for Email Related…

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  • iPads swarm healthcare

    Is Your Doctor’s iPad Good For Your Health? By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com Surgeons, doctors, nurses, residents, and other medical professionals all regularly use iPads on the job. The practice has inspired a cottage industry, health care innovation, and privacy concerns. Slow­ly but sure­ly, iPads are chang­ing the fa… RT @FastCompany: Is your doctor’s iPad good…

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  • Talented workers bring their own devices

    Worried Workers: BYOD Or You’re SOL [Infographic] Brian Proffitt, readwrite.com It is a common perception around the world that Americans, by and large, have problems relaxing. We don’t take what little vacations we do get and increasingly use technology to blur the line between work and home life. But a new study shows that… RT…

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  • Why the walking dead is so addictive yet mindless

    loafersansocks: I don’t watch The Walking Dead anymore. When I did, however, this is exactly how I felt. The large portion that is pink was ultimately enough to make me steer clear for the rest of the series. Related articles Walking Dead continues to Bore us all (reviewsofthetube.wordpress.com)

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  • IBM’s Cognitive Computing Plans: Giving Smartphones 5 Senses

    Antone Gonsalves, readwrite.com IBM believes technology’s future lies in cognitive computing, which essentially means making computers think more like humans do. To IBM, that includes giving computers sensors that enable it to touch, see, hear, taste and smell – sensory input as… RT @RWW: IBM believes technology’s future lies in cognitive computing; making computers think…

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  • Why the iPad can replace your cable subscription

    Who Needs Cable? 3 iPad Apps That Glue Me To My TV John Paul Titlow, readwrite.com The Internet may be changing TV, but it is nowhere close to completely disrupting it.Why’s that? In a word, content.Web videos can rack up millions of views (and millions of dollars), but the Web isn’t yet giving us content…

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  • Merrell Barefoot Road Glove Lightning Review: Minimalist Foot Heaven

    gizmodo.com So, you’ve heard about all of this min­i­mal­ist, “barefoot-style” run­ning, and you want in. Thing is, those toe-shoes look real­ly weird. You don’t want any padding, but you don’t want your foot pierced by rocks either. Is there a bal­ance point… Merrell Barefoot Road Glove Lightning Review: Minimalist Foot Heaven http://flip.it/L7HP5 http://flip.it/dY2t0 Merrell Barefoot…

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  • AT&T liberate mifi displays status

    AT&T MiFi Liberate: The Best MiFi I’ve Ever Used Sam Biddle, gizmodo.com If you can afford one, hotshot, an LTE MiFi will change your life a little bit: you have Internet virtually everywhere you go, a wireless high-speed network in your bag.Most MiFi gadgets are lousy. This one is stellar.What Is It?A tiny… AT&T MiFi…

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  • Funf: computational social science in your pocket

    Open-source Funf platform taps into Android’s huge knowledge about you By Daniel Cossins, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Novem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… http://flip.it/FiWXt Related articles Why…

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  • The Evernote clipping obsession

    The Verge at work: backing up your brain By Thomas Houston, theverge.com How I use Evernote as a memory tool for deep reading, writing, and research The Verge at Work is a series about process. We’re not sci­en­tists, and we’re not gurus, we’re just try­ing to get some work done. The solu­tions pre­sent­ed here ar……

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  • Netflix is a good place to see how fast your Internet service is

    Netflix launches monthly ISP speed rankings, praises Google Fiber, and calls out AT&T By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Net­flix is wide­ly acknowl­edged to make up a large chunk of down­stream inter­net traf­fic, and the com­pa­ny is now using that posi­tion to start chart­ing how fast ISPs can stream movies to cus­tomers. Every month, it’s announced, it…

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  • iPhone 5 on cricket

    (via iPhone 5 to debut on Cricket Wireless on Sept. 28 | TechHive) Related articles Cricket’s iPhone 5 play stumbles amid half the predicted demand (slashgear.com) Apple to Release a New A1428 iPhone 5 Starting April 12th With AWS Support! (applios.wordpress.com)

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  • Mailbox app for iPhone replaces Apple mail

    Mailbox for iPhone: a next-generation email app inspired by Sparrow and Clear By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com Cloud to-do list com­pa­ny Orches­tra today announced Mail­box, an email client for the iPhone it’s been build­ing for the last year. I’ve been test­ing Mail­box for the last few weeks and it’s noth­ing short of spec­tac­tu­lar. It’s the best…

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  • Apps for iPad that let anyone watch cable channels for free

    History, A&E, and Lifetime Channel apps for iPad let anyone watch current episodes for free By Dante D’Orazio, theverge.com It may con­tin­ue to be a pain for cable sub­scribers to watch tele­vi­sion when mobile, but the sit­u­a­tion should be a bit improved now that apps for the His­to­ry Chan­nel, A&E, and Life­time are avail­able for…

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  • Buffer social media turns from websites to mobile streams

    With Over 400,000 Users, Social Media Manager Buffer Gets A Refresh On Web & Mobile, Moves Away From Being A Destination Site Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com Buffer, the social media man­ag­er that allows you to sched­ule posts to Twit­ter, Face­book and LinkedIn, is today launch­ing a redesign of its ser­vice on both web and mobile. The…

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  • Better mail apps for the Mac

    From The Makers Of Orchestra Comes Mailbox, The Best Email Management App You’ll Ever Use Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com Every now and then, I get my hands on an appli­ca­tion or a piece of tech­nol­o­gy that I can’t wait to tell the rest of the world about. Some­thing that is a joy to use, tack­les a…

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  • How to describe environmental science to conservatives

    Concept Of “Purity” Makes Conservatives Care About Environmental Issues By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com Re-framing environmental rhetoric so it appeals to conservatives can really work, a study finds. It’s not that polit­i­cal con­ser­v­a­tives don’t care about things like cli­mate change, recy­cling and deforestation—it’s that they don’t care ab… RT @PopSci: Pro tip: Framing environmental issues in…

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