The Second Billion Smartphone Users

Via TechCrunch the Android and Apple ads that clog the streets of Mandalay, the temple shopkeeper I passed yesterday playing a game on his Galaxy Note, the teenage girls riding sidesaddle on motorcycles holding their phones carefully just away from the tree-bark paste...

Gangnam robot: CHARLI-2

Via Wired: Points: “…the Navy is using him for research on its firefighting robot of the future.” Advanced algorithm for stabilizing CHARLI-2, making it able to move around ships. Ponder: How quickly will the technology improve so robots become even more agile and...

Books Change How a Child’s Brain Grows

Via Instapundit: …the level of mental stimulation a child receives in the home at age 4 predicted the thickness of two regions of the cortex in late adolescence, such that more stimulation was associated with a thinner cortex. Books Change How a Child’s Brain...