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In People’s Minds, Being a Zombie Is Better than Being a Vegetable

Dead is dead. Except when you’re actually dead, apparently, because a recent study published in Cognition shows that people think a dead person is somehow better at thinking than a human vegetable. Score one for the zombie apocalypse. The study was conducted by scientists working out of the University of Maryland and Harvard. Researchers approached…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 22

Apparently, Android Is the Least Open of the Open Source Platforms

Sorry Android. You get by with having this reputation of being open but in reality you’re the least open/most closed “open platform” around. In a study with eight other platforms, Android finished dead last. And it wasn’t even close. The study, done by market research firm, VisionMobile took a look at Android, Eclipse, the Linux…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 4

Samsung-Funded Study Finds Samsung’s 3DTVs Hurt Your Eyes (Updated)

Whoops! Looks like we shouldn’t have funded that university study on the effects of looking at 3DTVs, probably says some guy at Samsung right now. Probably, because the study found that 3DTVs cause eye strain and fatigue, Ars reports. This is A) Unsurprising news, and B) another disturbing instance of commercial interests intermingling with scientific…

Gadgets Sam Biddle Jul 25

A Sure-Fire Way To Win At Rock, Paper, Scissors

Rock, paper, scissors … shoot. We’ve all played the game as a child and an adult, but did you know there’s an easy way to increase your odds of winning. All you have to do is close your eyes. According to Richard Cook of University College London, our brain can’t resist the urge to imitate…

Tech News Kelly Jul 19

Love Is The Ultimate Painkiller

Don’t bother with morphine the next time you are in pain. All you need is a healthy dose of love to make yourself feel better in an instant. A group of 17 women lined up at UCLA to have their brains scanned while they received brief, stinging shocks. They endured this form of medical torture…

Tech News Kelly Jun 29

A Study and Your Mom Confirm That Whining Is the Worst Noise Ever

According to a recent study, whining that you don’t wanna go to school has proven to be the most distracting sound one can hear. In fact, it was found to be more irksome than a screeching table saw. Researchers Rosemarie Sokol Chang and Nicholas S. Thompson conducted their study looking into how attachment vocalizations affected…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 20

Cool Your Brain For Better Sleep

Counting sheep, popping sleeping pills and staring blindly at the ceiling wont help you get to sleep as quickly as a cooling brain cap says a study presented at the Sleep 2011 Conference. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine discovered that wearing a cooling plastic cap that covers your forehead will help…

Tech News Kelly Jun 13

Where Do Your Eyes Look When You’re Watching a Movie?

Eleven movie watchers had their eye movements recorded using an Eyelink 1000 (SR Research) infra-red camera-based eyetracker while watching There Will Be Blood. Each dot represents a person’s eyes and the size of the dot shows how long they’ve stared at that point. I wonder how the magnetic Daniel Day-Lewis would stack up next to…

Movies Casey Chan Feb 16

Science proves that keeping a diary makes you smarter

The Vampire Diaries turn out to have a social benefit after all. New research shows that committing problems to paper in a diary helps students score higher on tests. Researchers investigated how keeping a diary affected both college and high school students. Those who were prone to severe test anxiety showed a dramatic score increase…

io9 Tim Barribeau Jan 13

Predicting the Future With Porn?

An upcoming study claims that test subjects were able to accurately predict future events—and that pornography was one of the tools used in research for the project. Crazy, right? But the methodology is sound. Skeptics are impressed. Do humans really have extra-sensory perception (ESP)? Can it really be triggered by the latest issue of Penthouse?…

Tech News Neal Ungerleider - Fast Company Nov 27

Note to Apple: 27 Million Americans Are Buying a Tablet Next Year, and it Might Not Be Yours

A new survey out of Forrester reports 14% of Americans plan on purchasing a tablet device next year—that’s 27 million people. Perhaps more interestingly, many of these millions are looking beyond Apple’s belle of the ball. The study should provide comfort for Apple’s rivals, hoping to throw their own devices into the ring against the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 20

Study Warns Private Browsing Modes Can Be Bypassed

In what will come as alarming news to porn lovers everywhere, a new study out of Stanford University shows that the private browsing modes now standard on most browsers can be circumvented. The culprits? Encrypted sites and your own extensions. In a paper to be presented at the upcoming Usenix security conference, computer scientist Dan…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle Aug 6

Cellphone Cancer Link Question to Receive Definitive Answer…In 2040

Age old question: Do these amazing, sometimes magical devices we push our ears countless times per day cause cancer? Great news! I can totally answer that question for you. Just check back with me in 2040. I say 2040 because that’s about the year when cellphone usage data from 250,000 volunteers in the UK, Finland,…

Tech News Jack Loftus Apr 25

Laptop Reliability Study: Asus and Toshiba Come Out on Top

New data from SquareTrade (one of the bigger warranty providers) says Asus and Toshiba have the least hardware malfunctions over 3 years, while one-in-four HP laptops are projected to experience problems. Oh, and crappy netbooks are worst of all. They say that sub-$400 netbooks are 20 percent more likely to fail in the first year.…

Tech News Danny Allen Nov 17

Study Claims Motion Blur Is a Non-Issue In Most Mid-To-High-End LCDs

A study conducted by DisplayMate Technologies claims that the issue of “motion blur” so long associated with LCDs is no longer an issue in mid-to-high-end LCDs. However, manufacturers have no problem selling you gimmicks that supposedly fix the problem. The HDTVs included models from the top-tier brands of (alphabetically) LG, Samsung, Sharp and Sony –…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 4

Almost Nobody Owns Just Macs

NPD’s Household Penetration Study found a 3% uptick in Mac households for 2009. This makes sense! What’s surprising (or not) is that of the 12% of homes with a Mac, less than 2% are Mac-exclusive. The 2% figure is extrapolated from NPD’s less direct assessment: [A]pproximately 12 percent of all U.S. computer owning households own…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 5

Study Says We Miss 15 Minutes of A Movie Just By Blinking

We say: Four times that if it’s Sex and the City and you’re male. Researches at the University of Tokyo have found that the brain pauses for up to 450 milliseconds with every blink, meaning we miss up to 6 seconds of visual info for every minute—or about 15 minutes for a 150 minute film.…

Movies Danny Allen Aug 7

NASA Pays “Pillownauts” Well To Lie In Bed For Weeks On End

In order to study the long-term effects of micro-gravity on the human body, NASA is looking for a few good lazy people to lie in bed all day sleeping, watching TV and playing video games. Apparently, the job pays as much as $160 a day—which means I could earn an extra $5,000 per month writing…

Space & Spaceflight Sean Fallon Jun 3

News Flash: TV Won’t Make Your Baby Smarter, Idiots

You know what’s the saddest thing about a study proving that television not good for small children? A bunch of Harvard researchers had to waste their time and funding to prove it. According to a new 800-participant joint study by Children’s Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School, before the age of three, DVDs like…

Television Mark Wilson Mar 4

Consumers Choose Products With More Tech Specs

A recent study in the Journal of Consumer Research reveals that we are heavily influenced into choosing products with heavy technical specs—even when those specs mean nothing. Five related studies were performed in which participants had to choose between two items in various categories, including digital cameras, towels, sesame oil, cell phones, and potato chips.…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 15

In People’s Minds, Being a Zombie Is Better than Being a Vegetable

Apparently, Android Is the Least Open of the Open Source Platforms

Samsung-Funded Study Finds Samsung’s 3DTVs Hurt Your Eyes (Updated)

A Sure-Fire Way To Win At Rock, Paper, Scissors

Love Is The Ultimate Painkiller

A Study and Your Mom Confirm That Whining Is the Worst Noise Ever

Cool Your Brain For Better Sleep

Where Do Your Eyes Look When You’re Watching a Movie?

Science proves that keeping a diary makes you smarter

Predicting the Future With Porn?

Note to Apple: 27 Million Americans Are Buying a Tablet Next Year, and it Might Not Be Yours

Study Warns Private Browsing Modes Can Be Bypassed

Cellphone Cancer Link Question to Receive Definitive Answer…In 2040

Laptop Reliability Study: Asus and Toshiba Come Out on Top

Study Claims Motion Blur Is a Non-Issue In Most Mid-To-High-End LCDs

Almost Nobody Owns Just Macs

Study Says We Miss 15 Minutes of A Movie Just By Blinking

NASA Pays “Pillownauts” Well To Lie In Bed For Weeks On End

News Flash: TV Won’t Make Your Baby Smarter, Idiots

Consumers Choose Products With More Tech Specs

Toshiba 43-Inch Smart Fire TV Crashes 53%, Now Costs About as Much as a Small Portable Monitor

Bose SoundLink Home Speaker Quietly Falls to an All-Time Low After Months of Stable Pricing, No Major Sale Event Needed

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