Cognitive Development & Technology Our brain is always on, always listening, always learning, and obeying our every command. It is our mind that solves all our problems, attending to all our emotions and desires, and who remembers our joys and sorrows. Our brain is our best friend. However, certain environmental conditions such as stress, depression, drugs, and substance abuse; neurological diseases such as learning disabilities, Multiple Sclerosis, and Alzheimer's; as well as developmental processes such as aging, can affect the brain's ability to attend, reason, learn and remember. Despite technological advances and the increase in educational level, it is observed that in all ages there is an increase in cognitive deterioration that can lead to neurological problems and drug abuse, depression, and lack of exercise. The literature on cognitive training recommends that, in order to be more effective, cognitive training should be endowed with a firm scientific theoretical base.
Double-Sided Design Solves Painfully Universal USB Problem | Designs &Ideas on Dornob Sometimes something begs for a simple solution. The nearly-ubiquitous USB port is perhaps the technological poster child for an obvious failure to work both ways (right-side-up or upside-down) despite looking perfectly symmetrical on both sides. Thankfully, and finally, this has been tackled from two directions (appropriately enough): one more idealistic, one more realistic, but both ingenious. Ma Yi Xuan is a student designer who has solved the problem in theory, and in reality by UltraTek‘s new Flipper. These answers have been a long time coming. This author, for example, has bend more than one USB plug (and port), though fortunately only destroyed one to date. In the student version, there is a piece on either side of the interior that slides out of the way to reveal a data connection – which half moves depends on what way the plug is placed into the accepting slot.
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Take typing lessons, test your typing speed and practice typing for free! This is keybr.com, a web application that will help you teach touch typing. Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. A person possessing touch typing skills will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory. It can improve any individual's typing speed and accuracy dramatically. This is a short tutorial that will explain how does this application work. You can use the left and right arrow keys to navigate through these slides. This tutorial is based on these few principles: No boring, repetitive exercises. Initially it starts generating words from a small subset of the most frequent letters of the alphabet. When you are typing these words, keybr measures time to type a key for every letter in that subset. Once you familiarize yourself with the current subset of letters, the algorithm expands it, including more and more letters to it. So at any time, you will by typing the letters you are least familiar with. This is the text board. ? ? ? ? ?
DeepLeap: The Fast-Paced Time-Wasting Word Game! Old PC Games - homepage T-shirt charges your phone by absorbing ambient sound First there were tie-dyes, then there were hypercolors. Could piezoelectric fabrics that charge your mobile phone while you wear them be the next big T-shirt fad? That's what the French telecom company, Orange, is counting on, reports the Telegraph. The shirts utilize ambient sound as a catalyst to produce electric voltage, and are being rolled out just in time for the Glastonbury Music Festival in Britain. The material used in the shirts is made from a product called piezoelectric film, which is capable of transforming sound waves into an electric charge via the compression of interlaced quartz crystals. Prototypes for the technology are being called "Sound Charge." After a weekend of mosh pits and camping out, the shirts will undoubtedly need to be washed. The shirts' charging ability may eventually be boosted by being combined with other wearable piezoelectric items. Check out this short video about the Sound Charge shirt to get a better idea for how it works:
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