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Oxford study finds digital screen time has little effect on teen mental health

Rich Haridy January 14, 2019

A study has tracked data from 350,000 subjects finding digital technology use accounts for less than half a percent of a young person’s mental health. The research suggests everything from wearing glasses to not getting enough sleep, have bigger negative effects on adolescent well-being.

A new study found that wearing glasses has a greater negative impact on a teenager's well-being ...

Computers

Real "fake news": China introduces AI news anchor

Rich Haridy November 8, 2018

China’s state-run news agency has revealed it will deploy new digitally generated newsreaders to report the news. The artificial anchors have been designed to reduce news production costs and increase efficiency, however, the use of the technology brings a new definition to the term "fake news."

Home Entertainment

Supersense brings video on vinyl to life on any regular TV

Paul Ridden October 16, 2018

Supersense has revived and refined an art project by Gebhard Sengmüller and Martin Diamant which sees users put a vinyl record on a turntable that results in sound and video appearing on a TV. Inbetween the two sits a VinylVideo Converter.

VinylVideo playback is fashionably low resolution, in both sound and video, but it's sure to be ...

Good Thinking

Magik Book catalog syncs with digital content on a tablet

Paul Ridden June 21, 2018

Augmented reality can bring a book to life by pointing a smartphone or tablet camera at coded objects on a page and viewing the results on the smart device's screen. Magik Book has created its own spin with brochures that sync with a tablet and launch digital content when a page is turned.

The Magik Book augmented brochure technology has been developed as a marketing tool for use in ...

Music

Is Spotify too big to fail or is subscription-based music streaming doomed?

Rich Haridy March 1, 2018

As Spotify reveals constant revenue losses we ask , is subscription-based music streaming a viable business model and how long can these giant companies operate if they are constantly hemorrhaging money?

If the biggest subscription-based music streaming company in the world is constantly losing money, then what ...

Automotive

Digital driving license begins limited Finnish trial

Paul Ridden February 5, 2018

Smartphones are everywhere these days, packed with apps designed to make everyday life plain easier. Finland's Trafi is looking to tap into this ubiquitous nature so that drivers no longer need to carry a plastic driving permit, instead using a digital version accessed from within an app.

The Trafi Digital Driving License app is currently undergoing a limited beta trial in Finland

Digital Cameras

Fujifilm's Instax SQ10 finds the square root of digital and instant photography

Michael Irving April 19, 2017

Fujifilm's Instax cameras hark back to when instant photo-sharing meant passing around a freshly printed snap. Launching with a square photo format, the Instax Square SQ10 expands the shooting options, improves image quality, and can store photos digitally and apply filters before printing them.

Fujifilm's Instax Square SQ10 brings some digital convenience to an instant film camera

Electronics

World's first fully digital radio transmitter built purely from microprocessor technology

Colin Jeffrey March 5, 2015

Generating high-frequency radio waves purely through the use of integrated circuits and a set of patented algorithms without using conventional analog radio circuits in any way whatsoever, the new Pizzicato transmitter promises to completely change the face of wireless communications technology.

The Pizzicato is a breakthrough in wireless technology – radio frequency transmission using only digital technology ...

Mobile Technology

Ears on: Sony's new high resolution, high dollar Walkman

Eric Mack January 19, 2015

Sony isn't giving up on its original portable music brand – the company introduced a new high resolution digital Walkman at CES 2015 and Gizmag had the chance to test it out.

The new Walkman will launch in the first half of 2015

Music

Powerful hybrid polysynth marries analog goodness with digital reliability

Paul Ridden July 21, 2014

The Modulus.002 is a boutique polyphonic sound machine that mixes classic analog sound creation techniques with some digital magic to give musicians access to the kind of sounds made famous by vintage instruments of the 70s and 80s.