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iBrain - New book tells us that texting and web browsing are changing our brains

We've all heard of seemingly miraculous instances of people losing parts of their brain and functioning normally afterwards because the human brain is a malleable organ. If you want to read about some wild examples of how the brain...

Posted on October 28, 2008 12:30 PM

Children's fiction on your iPhone

Digital artist Aya Karpinska has published a digital children's literature piece, entitled, "Shadows Never Sleep," for the iPhone and iTouch, available for free download from the iTunes App Store. (For the Apple device-impaired folks, you can watch Quicktime and...

Posted on August 19, 2008 8:37 AM

WEbook: Collaborative book writing, publishing and social networking

WEbook (pronounced "we-book"), a collaborative book writing website that launched this past spring, puts to the test several premises about writing and publishing, the first being that every person has at least one book - or one story -...

Posted on July 1, 2008 1:02 PM

America is a weird and wonderful "Gadget Nation," says new book

You know, we technophiles can be extremely demanding. We want our gadgets to be useful, look good, and pack a bunch of impressive specifications that knock our socks off. Oh, and if they could be small enough to pop...

Posted on May 6, 2008 10:14 AM

The Future of the Internet by Jonathan Zittrain

I’m hopeful, but with a healthy amount of cynicism. Intellectually, I like to keep things sweet and sour. So, while I loved and devoured and praised Clay Shirky’s newest book, “Here Comes Everybody,” it was important to couch that...

Posted on May 5, 2008 6:56 PM

Tag, you're it - Leapfrog's Tag Reading System for kids

Leapfrog has developed the next-generation reading tool for youngsters, the all-new, web-connected Tag Reading system. A small, sophisticated infrared camera at the tip of the reader, which looks like a large pen, “reads” letters, words and symbols printed on...

Posted on February 22, 2008 6:00 AM