Constantly checking your phone reduces wellbeing, makes you less mindful
Psychologists call this phenomenon 'online vigilance'.
Tag: smartphone
With a few cheap changes, your smartphone can now detect lead contamination in water
Smartphones can be turned into a water quality sensor, too.
Scientists build chemical weapon detector with Lego
Gruesome chemical weapons can be detected with the help of children's toys.
Put your phone away if you want to enjoy your night out, study suggests
Unlike apps, happiness doesn't seem to come through your phone.
How bees might help smartphone cameras snap more natural-looking photos
They give us honey. Now, bees could offer the best Instagram photos.
Fingerprint authentication for smartphones isn’t secure at all. Some of the enrolled prints are like ‘1234’ PIN codes
Fingerprint auth isn't as secure as most people think.
Security experts crack smartphone PIN using only the motion sensor data. By the third try, the algorithm was 94 percent accurate
The algorithm exploited the motion and orientation data recorded by a smartphone's accelerometer or gyroscope.
New method piggybacks data on radio waves to make singing posters and smart cities
Its gonna be a lot of chatter though.
Portable smartphone laboratory can detect cancer with 99% accuracy
This tiny thing can analyze 8 samples at once.
New class of transparent metal films could make smartphones a whole lot cheaper
Researchers have discovered a new material that's both transparent and electrically conductive that might make smartphones, TVs, smart windows and ...
This simple code can increase your smartphone battery life by 16% – and yes, it’s free
Researchers at Purdue University in the US have developed a new tool for Android users that could increase your battery ...
Your smartphone will be able to tell if you have blood parasites
Scientists have managed to use a simple smartphone to test for blood parasites; the device and app was successful in ...
Your smartphone might be making you stupid
People who excessively rely on their smartphones scored lower on tests which gauged cognitive abilities like analytical thinking than those ...
Software makes phone pics clearer and sharper without changing hardware
A software corrects blur and makes photos taken with the same smartphone a lot clearer and ...
Bra Sensors Could Monitor Overeating
Despite all the related problems which contribute to obesity such as stress , the main cause is... eating too much. ...
Chickens and high-tech or how the LG G2 won the camera smartphone market
What happens when you combine a chicken, a man cave, and one of the most advanced and awesome smartphones out ...
What to Expect From the New Blackberry Phones
The hype about the Blackberry 10 models became stronger when Research in Motion (RIM) sent out the invites for their ...
Orwell that ends well (… or understanding smartphone technologies)
George Orwell’s “ 1984” did not turn out the way it was imagined to turn out. Something of that sort ...
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