Eventually, Mr. Yuen envisions devices built with Gemstar's electronic book reading patents to blossom into personal organizers, wireless pagers and phones and generalized portable entertainment devices for text, video and sound.
Checking electronic devices for text messages, voice mails and emails continually throughout the day creates a obsessive preoccupation that doesn't quench the thirst for the need for more, it amplifies it.
Since it was installed in April, some 19,000 passengers have used mobile devices for texting and e-mails, says AeroMobile, the British firm that supplied the system.
The Consumer Electronics Association, a trade group with 2,200 member companies, supports legislation that bans the use of hand-held devices for texting while driving and initiatives that restrict mobile phone use for novice drivers, but has come out strongly against a total ban.
When in response to a malware attack global enterprises with great resources end up shutting down their systems, including critical communications, and move to employees' personal devices for texts and emails, it is time to rethink the game of storing everything, which is making us more vulnerable and exposed.
This is about changing our habit of constantly checking our devices for texts, emails and updates.
As its design reflects, the mobile phone -- with a keypad like a conventional phone -- was not initially envisioned as a device for text messaging, said James E. Katz, director for the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University.
The phenomenon of using a mobile electronic device for texting, talking, or listening to music by a pedestrian has been called "digital distraction".
This course will examine conventions and patterns in the history of recorded human communication to consider how future technologies of text (methods of recording, modes of information exchange, devices for reading text) might develop.
Activists were issued with hand-held devices for sending text messages, some of which flashed up on the big screen above the stage.
Reading devices for digital texts do not provide any such mechanisms for working through a text or navigating it, leaving the reader to struggle with any one of a range of unfamiliar user interfaces to the text, unassisted by spatial or visual cues about his or her position.
