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Breaking the habit: Why hiding your phone won’t stop the distraction

Our modern relationship with smartphones is always within arm's reach and frequently demands our attention. It's incredible how they've become indispensable tools and relentless sources...

Interactive digital platform helps elementary students boost reading skills faster

Study shows roadmap learning platform improves engagement and literacy among young learners

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New device helps Parkinson’s patients track symptoms at home and improve care

Patients with Parkinson's often don't know how fast their disease is worsening or if their medications are working.

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4+ hours of using a smartphone impacts adolescent health

However, for lighter users, rates of adverse health measures were no greater than for nonusers.

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Study reveals ideal daily step count for longer life: 8,000 steps

Daily step counts linked to mortality and heart health.

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Your tongue reflects your health

Review of a computer-based system for diagnosing diseases by analyzing tongue color.

Image showing Eight green perovskite LED substrates in Congreve’s lab glow as researchers shine ultraviolet light on them.

Perovskite LEDs get a boost, but at the expense of longevity

The Efficiency-Stability Trade-Off in Perovskite LEDs.

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Affordable mass manufacturing method for micro-LED displays

Continuous roller printing efficiently transfers thousands of microscopic semiconductor devices in a single shot.

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Smartphone screens can be used to map magnetic fields

Hand-held magnetic field imaging can used for construction safety & medical diagnostics.

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Glasses with AI can read a silent speech

Acoustic sensing enables silent speech recognition without eyewear.

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Phone’s dark mode doesn’t necessarily save much battery life

But there are a few ways that users can take better advantage of the feature.

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Scientists invented a smartphone-controlled soft brain implant

Wirelessly rechargeable soft brain implant controls brain cells​.

Students used their smartphone over 8h/day on average during lockdown

Students used their smartphone over 8h/day on average during lockdown

Those reporting poorer sleep quality also used these devices more.

Excessive smartphone, social media use may be linked to mental distress

Excessive smartphone, social media use may be linked to mental distress

The study highlight factors that should be among the factors considered by clinicians and researchers who work in the field of youth mental health.

Just being around your cellphone affects your thinking

A framework of trying to understand if technology, or media in general, are mirrors or modifiers of human behavior.

Associate Professor Matthew Hill, Dr Mahdokht Shaibani and Professor Mainak Majumder with the lithium-sulphur battery design.

New lithium-sulphur battery makes cell phone work for five continuous days

It also enables an electric vehicle to drive more than 1000km without needing to “refuel”.

The handheld technology allows farmers to identify plant diseases in the field. Photo credit: NC State University

Smartphone-based portable device diagnoses plant diseases in the field

Every plant releases volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as they 'breathe' through the pores in their leaves. But when a plant is diseased, the type...

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New technique could make screens brighter, with better contrast and longer life

If you have ever tried to watch any video on a tablet on a sunny day, you know you have to tilt it at...

Dr. Randall Bly, an assistant professor of otolaryngology at the UW School of Medicine who practices at Seattle Children’s Hospital, uses the app to check his daughter’s ear.Dennis Wise/University of Washington

Researchers developed a smartphone app that can hear ear infection in children

An ear infection may occur when fluid builds up in the middle ear behind the eardrum and is infected. Any kind of fluid build-up...

Scientists blended smartphone to reveal what’s inside

Scientists blended smartphone to reveal what’s inside

Smartphones, mobile phones with more advanced computing capabilities and connectivity than regular mobile phones, came onto the consumer market in the late 90s. The...

Study finds that hackers could guess your phone PIN using its sensor data

Study finds that hackers could guess your phone PIN using its sensor data

According to a new study, advanced mobile phone instruments, such as the accelerometer, spinner, and vicinity sensors, speak to potential security powerlessness. Utilizing a blend of...

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Women more prone to smartphone addiction than men

Smartphone owners, particularly younger adults, use smartphones for more than just calling and messaging. 44% of cell phone owners have slept with their phone...

Technology May Let You Charge Smartphone with a Finger Swipe

Technology May Let You Charge Smartphone with a Finger Swipe

In the hustle and bustle of modern life, there are so many important elements like a smartphone. Smartphone plays an important role in our...

How smartphone screen affect your body

This is How Smartphone Screen Affects Your Body

Smartphones are becoming a part of our daily lives. Everyone carries a cell phone. Additionally, everyone is becoming conscious about their health, but they...

Google's New Smartphone: Pixel And Pixel Xl

Google’s New Smartphone: Pixel And Pixel Xl

For the first time, Google has announced its new smartphones, Pixel and Pixel XL. These smartphones can bring people the best of Google through...

New Fabric Uses Sun And Wind To Power Devices

New Fabric Uses Sun And Wind To Power Devices

Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology developed a new fabric that gathers power from both the sun and the wind. Scientists have combined...

Holoflex: world's first holographic flexible smartphone

Holoflex: world’s first holographic flexible smartphone

Scientists recently have developed the Holoflex: the world's first holographic flexible smartphones’. Without any kind of helmets, it allows the user to interface with...

Flexible Android Smartphone

Reflex: A Flexible Android Smartphone

From the University of Queen's Media Lab, Canada, Researchers have developed world's first flexible android smartphone named as 'ReFlex' by using bend sensing to...

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