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Americans are increasingly using laptops, smartphones, and tablets when watching TV. The second screen is creating unique opportunities for companies to enhance engagement between the audience and their favorite shows.

In line with its ongoing strategy of bringing innovation to television on a regular basis, France Télévisions and its New Writing team launched an unprecedented interactive experience in April 2013. Viewers were able to take part in a live investigation during the broadcast of an episode of the Les petits meurtres d’Agathe Christie (“Little Murders by Agatha Christie”) drama series as two new detectives were introduced to the show at the beginning of its latest season.

A new text streaming technology called Spritz purports to offer just that: "Content can be streamed one word at a time, without forcing your eyes to spend time moving around the page," says the website.

An inventor has come up with a system for embedding smells into movies, music and text messaging.

When it comes to unique passcodes, it doesn't get much more secure that an eye scan. Thanks to EyeLock's Myris, you'll be able to create super complex passwords that you won't have to remember - using a USB-powered add-on to authenticate your identity instead. 

InAiR turns your TV into "Minority Report" experience, filled with layers of Web content, inline with the programs you're watching.

In the future, everything will learn.This year, IBM researchers are exploring the idea that everything will learn – driven by a new era of cognitive systems where machines will learn, reason and engage with us in a more natural and personalized way. These innovations are beginning to emerge enabled by cloud computing, big data analytics and learning technologies all coming together.

International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has published a new report of researching Internet users. The separated part of infographics was about "Digital Native".

Panono is a throwable panoramic ball camera, which captures everything in every direction for amazing 72 megapixel, 360° X 360° full-spherical panoramic images.

In the two years since Common Sense Media first reported on the media use of 0- to 8-year-olds, our latest survey in the series, Zero to Eight: Children's Media Use in America 2013

We are moving from a world in which physical products are separate to one in which they are connected.  

Here are the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 –  the results of the 7th Annual Learning Tools Survey.

We all know surveillance is big in Putin’s Russia. What you may not know is that Russia’s surveillance tech is being used all over — even here in the U.S.

Pressy brings back simplicity to your phone. Perform your favorite and most common actions with a simple, intuitive physical button.

Interesting figures about Education-2013 were published on official Livejournal of Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

Breakthroughs will mark the era of cognitive systems when computers will, in their own way, see, smell, touch, taste and hear.

Physics may be an esoteric concept, but this charmingly illustrated video will get you through a few hundred years of discovery.

The days of using your cell phone solely for talking to friends and loved ones are over. In March 2012, smartphone usage rose to 50.4 percent of consumers in the U.S. Today, Americans are using their mobile phones for nearly everythings, and they consume mobile information almost anywhere that allows them.

What apps do we regularly use? And what types of devices? These questions are answered by Nielsen's research in the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Great Britain, India, Italy, China, Russia, USA, South Korea and Turkey.

Today at an important meeting I noticed, that I not only listened to my partner and had a look at my Skype messages, but also answered there, checked my e-mails and worried about an important sms I hadn't got yet. Who are we made by these new information technologies? What does modern science talk about it? Actually, people, who use multitask, reduce their own productivity...

Using Innerscope Research, a biometric media research firm, Time Inc. analyzed 300 hours' worth of people's use of TV, Web, tablet, smartphone and print media for 10-hour period on weekdays and weekends.

With the emergence of the iPad, media tablets have become poised like never before to dominate the home computer market. With their touch screens and chameleon like abilities to perform a bevy of tasks, one can only wonder if the takeover is sooner than we think.

Using Innerscope's Biometric Monitor System; along with eye tracking online surveys and Ipsps' qualitative analysis, Turner Broadcasting System looked at how engagement varies depending on the viewing situation.

The prototype is done under the agreement with the National Institute of Education Development for the complex project called "Development of Interactive Multimedia Electronic Prototypes of New Textbooks for Basic Education for Modern Mobile Electronic Devices" for the Russian Ministry of Education.

The prototype is done under the agreement with the National Institute of Education Development for the complex project called "Development of Interactive Multimedia Electronic Prototypes of New Textbooks for Basic Education for Modern Mobile Electronic Devices" for the Russian Ministry of Education.

The prototype is done under the agreement with the National Institute of Education Development for the complex project called "Development of Interactive Multimedia Electronic Prototypes of New Textbooks for Basic Education for Modern Mobile Electronic Devices" for the Russian Ministry of Education.

7 inch tabs comparison

The document is for those who are interested in e-pupils' study books, apps for educational purposes.

The model of e-Book is based on a standard model with pshyhologic characteristics of pupils, subject and level of education. Here you will find e-book functionality and its structure.

The prototype is done under the agreement with the National Institute of Education Development for the complex project called "Development of Interactive Multimedia Electronic Prototypes of New Textbooks for Basic Education for Modern Mobile Electronic Devices" for the Russian Ministry of Education.