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Comment Re:Your memory (Score 1) 300

by saffron on Monday April 02, 2012 @02:08PM (#39551327) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Note-Taking Device For Conferences?

Having some sort of capture device, like pen and paper, is a good way to free up your attention for the speaker.

As you're listening, you'll be struck by some thought or another, some idea to follow up on, some insight. If you can write this down quickly and cheaply, you don't have to occupy your mind with remembering YOUR idea. Then you can listen more freely to THEIR ideas.

I discovered the value of using a trusted external system to store stuff like this, instead of only my own mind, when I began playing with David Allen's ideas in his book Getting Things Done.

100-Year-Old Electric Car Design Makes a Comeback 385

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 17, 2008 @12:54PM from the they-do-make-em-like-they-used-to dept.

CNet's Green Tech Blog is reporting that Detroit Electric plans to release a small number of cars based around a car designed nearly 100 years ago. Detroit Electric is a joint venture between Santa Rosa, CA-based electric transportation specialist, Zap and China's Youngman motors. "Back in 1917, a Detroit Electric cost anywhere from $1,775 to $2,375--in other words, fit for the proletarian or plutocrat. The cars could go 65 miles to 100 miles on a battery charge, but only go at speeds ranging from 6 miles per hour to 25 mph."

Method of Reading Discovered 181

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 10, 2007 @01:08PM from the going-crosseyed dept.

Scientists have discovered that the method our eyes use to process letters on a page is different than previously believed. Instead of assimilating one letter at a time our eyes actually lock on to two different letters simultaneously about half the time. "The team's results demonstrated that both eyes lock on to the same letter 53% of the time; for 39% of the time they see different letters with uncrossed eyes; and for 8% of the time the eyes are crossing to focus on different letters. A follow-up experiment with the eye-tracking equipment showed that we only see one clear image when reading because our brain fuses the different images from our eyes together."

Google Shows Off Ad-Supported Cell Phone 290

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 02, 2007 @05:52PM from the gotta-love-freebies dept.

taoman1 writes "Today Google showed off a ad-supported cellphone that the company plans to offer for free to interested parties. The product could reach the marketplace within a year, and will offer Google search, email, and a web browser. 'The move would echo another recent product launched by a phone industry outsider, Apple Inc.'s iPhone. But Google's product would draw its revenue from a sharply different source, relying on commercial advertising dollars instead of the sticker price of at least US$499 for an iPhone and $60 per month for the AT&T Inc. service plan. Negotiating the fairest way to split those advertising revenues with service providers could be a big hurdle for Google, one analyst said. Another problem is the potential that consumers could be scared off by the prospect of listening to advertisements before being able to make phone calls, said Jeff Kagan, a wireless and telecommunications industry analyst in Atlanta.'"

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