His attachment prefigures our rapturous, narcissistic fixation with phones and computers; the enormous devolution of our emotional and practical lives to technological apparatuses of one kind or another.
"We got mired down in the here and now, with this fixation on phones and devices," Renee James, Intel's president, said in an exclusive interview at the annual Intel Developers Forum.
Longtime readers may already know that I have a peculiar fixation on white phones, and I'll admit that my heart went a-quiver when AT&T revealed that a white Lumia 900 would be released shortly after its black and cyan brethren.
The results showed that in the browsing task, participants had shorter time to first fixation for the smart phone picture with higher level of user experience than the lower.
In addition to the above effects, pedestrians distracted by phone conversation cross the street more slowly, direct fewer fixation points to the right traffic area, and spend less fixation time and lower average fixation duration on the left traffic area.
Early on, Lockwood's parents called Carolina on the phone to try to understand their son's fixation.
In goal-oriented task, participants' attentions were dominated by visual perception of task driven, mainly reflected on longer fixation time and larger pupil diameter when looking at the smart phone with higher level of user experience.
The effort by the al-Azhar sheiks to offer religious guidance over the phone is just one of many attempts by Muslims in various nations to harness the modern fixation with gadgetry to disseminate the seventh-century religious guidelines in the Koran, and in its kindred text, the Hadith, the sayings of the prophet.
Technology is a recent fixation and muse for Badu, one that she playfully examines throughout her latest release, "But You Caint Use My Phone".
In recent months fashion fixations have included Beyoncé's Kale sweatshirt, Adidas' Stan Smith trainers, Birkenstocks, Kenzo tiger sweatshirts, Moschino fast food phone covers – and just about every outfit worn by the Duchess of Cambridge.
