Economist Sean Snaith doesn’t think the recession of 2007-2009 will leave the same psychic imprint on consumers today that the Great Depression had on its survivors. “No, it won’t be a lifetime-altering experience,” said Snaith, director of the Institute for Economic Competitiveness at the University of Central Florida…
THE proliferation of iPods, cellphones and other devices in the hands of smaller children is sure to have profound social significance in the long term, but in the short term it means something else: broken gadgets and lost parts. Fortunately, technology is also improving on that front. Advances…
Book Time, a page turning robot, is in practice a wonderfully useless piece of whimsy. The video shows the poor machine struggling to get a grip and flip a page. It’s funny when seen once or twice, but imagine using this and seeing the same hydraulic hesitation at…