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Many people's homes now have more powerful, and more flexible, devices than their offices do; consumer gadgets and online services are smarter and easier to use than most companies'ystems

people are increasingly using for peace of mind in their homes, but few stop to think about the effect these devices may have on house guests.

Security devices are required to list the frequencies they broadcast on—that means that a potential thief can find what they need to know with minimal Googling.

The always-on Internet devices raise some novel possibilities, like tracking where students gather together.

Students already have laptops and cell phones, of course, but the newest devices can take class distractions to a new level

She speculated that professors might try even harder to make classes interesting if they were to compete with the devices.

Providing powerful hand-held devices is sure to fuel debates over the role of technology in higher education

Abilene Christian settled on the devices after surveying students and finding that they did not like hauling around their laptops, but that most of them always carried a cell phone, Dr. Dickson said.

At least four institutions - the University of Maryland, Oklahoma Christian University, Abilene Christian and Freed-Hardeman- have announced that they will give the devices to some or all of their students this fall

the wireless carrier offering the iPhone in the United States, had a more reliable network, said Andrew Yu, mobile devices platform project manager at M.I.T.

Both the iPhones and the iPod Touch devices can connect to the Internet through campus wireless networks

My colleagues and I are studying something called augmented reality (a field of computer research dealing with the combination of real-world and virtual reality)," said Christopher Dede, professor in learning technologies at Harvard University, "Alien Contact," for example, is an exercise developed for middle-school students who use hand-held devices that can determine their location.

The rush to distribute the devices worries some professors, who say that students are less likely to participate in class if they are multi-tasking

find new applications for iPod Touch devices

have difficulty learning to handle the devices

A finding that was a bit surprising is that to consumers, the inner parts of high-tech devices do apparently matter.

A quarter of students report that their use of digital devices during class causes their grades to suffer .

All researches agree that close to 25 billion devices, things and sensors will be connected by 2020 which incidentally is also the moment that millennials are expected to make up 75 percent of our overall workforce, and the fully connected home will becom

And 29%, the "invisible risk"group, scored high on three in particular: They spent five hours a day or more on electronic devices.

And there is more to the story, because not only are the devices that house incandescent bulbs shaped to their underlying characteristics, but rooms and entire buildings have been designed in accordance with how incandescent lighting reflects off walls an

Apple and other tech companies hold another ace: the technical means to keep making their devices more and more inaccessible.

Because previous research has shown that people with high intellectual abilities are better at filtering out distractions, researchers believed students with high ACT scores would not show a significant decrease in performance due to their use of digital

Even among people who have bought connected devices of some kind, 37 percent said that they are going to be more cautious about using these devices and services in the future.

For instance, new technologies that are building upon existing technology have not found their footing well enough to appeal to a mass audience, because, in many cases, they need to work effectively with other devices to realize their full appeal.

However, the "screen time" hypothesis, advanced by researchers such as Jean Twenge, is that electronic devices and excessive time spent online may have reversed these trends in recent years, causing problems for young people's psychological health.

If we weren't on our devices,we'd likely do something similarly unproductive.

In response to past critics, Twenge and her co-researchers stress they are not trying to prove that the use of digital devices reduces young people's well-being.

It is still easy to be dazzled by the display of drones, 3D printers, virtual reality goggles and more "smart" devices than you could ever hope to catalog.

Professor sometimes implement policies designed to minimize students' use of digital devices, and some instructors even confiscate tablets and phones.

The number of devices you can talk to is multiplying—first it was your phone, then your car, and now you can tell your kitchen appliances what to do.

The order essentially asks Apple to hack its own devices, and once it is in place, the precedent could be used to justify law enforcement efforts to get around encryption technologies in other investigations far removed from national security threats.

Their well-being was even higher than those who never used such devices.

They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices—a couple of hours a week—had the highest well-being.

Think of something as seemingly benign as the cellphone: we have microfinance and text-based social networking at one end of the spectrum, and improvised explosive devices at the other.

Those spending 10-19 hours per week on their devices were 41 percent more likely to be unhappy than lower-frequency users.

Those who used such devices 40 hours a week or more one in ten teenagers were twice as likely to be unhappy.

We can expect that the ever-growing list of devices, systems and environments remain connected, always online and talking to each other.

We've held on to this workday structure – but thanks to our digital devices, many employees never really clock out.