“I need to quit texting, because I could die in a car accident”
Submitted without comment: "I need to quit texting, because I could die in a car accident," Texas college student Chance Bothe says he texted a friend just before
Philadelphia, unfortunately, will NOT have a sidewalk e-lane for textestrians
This is the lede buried in an AP article about distracted walking (something I wrote about last week): As an April Fool's Day joke with a serious message,
Four months a year on email
Jordan Weissmann at the Atlantic catches a new report on office work:There's a good chance you spend more than a quarter of each week reading and answering those
Frogs do NOT mindlessly boil to death if first put in cold water: A note on tech addiction
Alexis Madrigal sighs, "Another day, another New York Times story about technology addiction." He's pointing to a Matt Richtel article about concerns about technology addiction-- right in the
Jack Cheng on the Slow Web: “Timely not real-time. Rhythm not random. Moderation not excess. Knowledge not information.”
James Fallows points out a great-- no, not great, really fantastic-- essay by Brooklyn-based designer and writer Jack Cheng, on the Slow Web: The Slow Web Movement is
Texting while walking is a bad idea
The other day my wife showed me a video of a woman who falls into a fountain at a mall because she's distracted by texting. This isn't the
Finally, a machine dispensing scalding liquids from your dashboard
In case you felt that Mitsubishi's idea of wraparound multimodal interfaces in cars wasn't going to be distracting enough, the Fiat 500L just announced its own entry in
New AF447 crash report and the perils of automation
The Guardian reports that a new Bureau of Investigations and Analysis study of Air France 447, which crashed in a storm in 2009, "raises concerns about training for
Sleep texting: It’s a true thing that exists
This is a new one to me, but I find it completely plausible. According to the Melbourne Sun Herald, The stress of daily life has sparked a new phenomenon
The rent-seeking model of attention capture; or, what could possibly go wrong with Skype Conversations Ads?
When I saw this article my jaw Hit. The. Floor. Skype calls to feature ads big enough to interrupt any conversation Skype to serve up personalized ads, hoping