So the iPhone X knows it's your face looking at it and can act accordingly, e.g. by displaying the full content of notifications on the lock screen vs just a generic notice if someone else is looking.
Companies like Geckoboard offer similar services, but this will be the first time Amazon has offered its own dashboard with a full suite of notifications and the tools to react in real-time.
Next year is to see the big introduction of Microsoft's personalized Web services, which the company now refers to as.Net MyServices, having dropped the previous, ominous label Hailstorm..Net MyServices is supposed to offer a full range of notification, calendar, contacts and wallet features.
Vivian Q., 14, from Marlboro, N.J., writes that her generation is becoming so addicted to socializing online that it is losing its ability to socialize in person: In a world full of e-mail notifications, beeping phones and Facebook posts, we become entangled, like flies in this web of social media and technology.
In a world so full of screens and notifications sparring for our attention, it's easy to get caught up in distractions.
It seems last week's hubbub about Apple delaying the new Apple TV was a bit premature as our tip box is full of Fedex shipping notifications.
In the case of the seismic project recently authorized at Utah's Dome Plateau, the bureau provided full public notification of the project, conducted a five-and-a-half-week comment period on the environmental assessment and carefully considered all pertinent information before making a decision.
Arguably for users this was a good thing (remember the days when your notifications were constantly full of Mafia Wars?), but the magic has long gone.
But as I and the rest of our digitized, computerized society grew up, life got noisier, more stressful and full of screens and beeping, pinging and notifications.
Is there a danger of notifications overload?
