Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Youth of America Spend Half Their Waking Hours Staring at Screens [Charts]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/-2tJTuSdrZU/youth-of-america-spend-half-their-waking-hours-staring-at-screens

Or, if you count multitasking—which is just the kind of hysterical, stat-juicing thing you would do if you were running a study like this—nearly 11 hours a day. That doesn't leave a lot of time for fresh air.

Even with out including multitasking hours, the Kaiser Family Foundation study shows that kids these days are watching TV, texting, or on the internet 7.5 hours each and every day. That's an hour more than in 2004, and an even bigger jump since 1999. Basically, if they're awake and not in school, they're staring at a screen.

My first thought: so what? The children are our future, and our future is a digital age. I can accept that. And there's a lot of valuable information and insight to be gleaned from these here internets, if you look in the right places.

My second thought: oh, man, are we doomed. [NY Times]



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Qik VideoCamera App Gives iPhone 3G and Even 2G Video Recording [IPhone Apps]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/tNSoXYc8kjE/qik-videocamera-app-gives-iphone-3g-and-even-2g-video-recording

Qik's VideoCamera app isn't the first to give older iPhones video recording capabilities, but it could be the first to do it well enough for non-gimmick use. It'll record at 15fps with various real-time effects, including a Na'vi-inspired blue tint.

Other features include landscape mode, zoom, brightness and audio controls, and effects like black and white, red (?), Na'vi blue, and mirror. It's available now for a buck (link opens iTunes). [Qik]



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3D maps demoed on Sony Ericsson X10, Snapdragon paying off

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/3d-maps-demoed-on-sony-ericsson-x10-snapdragon-paying-off/

Ericsson Labs is showing off an API for navigating through a three-dimensional interpretation of the world based on real imagery powered by Saab spinoff (the defense firm, not the car company) C3 Technologies on Sony Ericsson's upcoming X10 -- and in a word, it's looking impressive. The buttons for controlling the action are a bit hokey, of course, but don't worry too much about that -- this is strictly a proof of concept, and the important thing is that no matter how much panning, tilting, and swooping through the cityscape the demo-giver does, video output stays above 30 frames per second. Thank goodness for Snapdragon, eh? There's no indication that we'll see a shipping version of this app on retail X10s out of the box, but let's hope something awesome comes of this. Follow the break for video.

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3D maps demoed on Sony Ericsson X10, Snapdragon paying off originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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EROS Shenzhen tablet has Atom, 2 hours of battery life and a $450 price tag

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/eros-shenzhen-tablet-has-atom-2-hours-of-battery-life-and-a-45/

Our guess is that the EROS tablet got caught in customs on its way to join its tablet friends at CES. Poor kid. Regardless, the 10.1-inch 1366x768 resistive touchscreen device still deserves its time to in the sun. Powered by an Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive, it runs Windows 7 (we're hoping Home Premium since Starter doesn't support touch). It all sounds fairly good until you hear about its three-cell battery's abysmal hour and a half of run time. And we've also got to say that it looks pretty chunky in the pictures, but most Wintel tablets are. But hey, maybe HP and Microsoft will change all that with the Slate. But if the EROS has struck your fancy, it looks to only be available in China for about 3,000 yuan or $441.

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EROS Shenzhen tablet has Atom, 2 hours of battery life and a $450 price tag originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LG's X300 ad strikes an amazingly familar tone

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/20/lgs-x300-ad-strikes-an-amazingly-familar-tone/

LG's X300 laptop may have largely avoided comparisons to a certain other thin-and-light when it was announced at CES earlier this month, but it looks like LG is intent on driving that point home regardless. As you can see for yourself in the promo video after the break, not only has LG carried on the oft-imitated manila envelope motif, but it tops things off with a just slightly off "la la la" refrain for good measure. All of which might have earned LG a few points for boldness if this were a parody ad released a few years ago but, sadly, this is 2010, and this ad is all too real.

[Thanks, Muller]

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