![]() ![]() Uno is hitting a fairly inexpensive price point for a wearable, which could make it a good value assuming it delivers on its promises. With 30 days left on the flexible-funding campaign, Uno has raised more than $20,000 toward a $50,000 goal. Once that's sold out, the price rises to $69 (about £44, AU$83). Battery life is already one of the biggest knocks against wearable technology, so it's nice to see a device that doesn't need to be plugged in every single night.Įarly-bird pledge slots of $59 (about £38, AU$71) are still available. In case it got lost in there among all those features, Uno does indeed work as a watch as well.īecause the OLED Uno isn't trying to deliver a big, glorious screen, it can run for over three days on a charge. The noteband is also actively going after the gamer market by displaying messages, notifications and game alerts from Xbox Live, PlayStation and Steam. An accelerometer built into the gadget logs your steps and activity level, working with Apple Health and Google Fit to keep track of your fitness data. So this is a way to know, okay, if it's being streamed, then the publisher knows, okay, people are actually reading it.Uno is living a double life as a fitness tracker. When you surf a web page, you're not sure that anyone's reading the content. You know, there's a lot of analytics that are possible in this technique, because, you know, you're streaming text that, for the first time, you know that someone's actually reading it. On practical applications for the technology ![]() You don't have to read a book in an hour." Other people read with great comprehension, improved comprehension, at 350 to 400 words a minute, which is almost double their normal reading speed. You know, the figure you've seen quoted in a lot of stories is 1,000 words a minute, and we have a guy who's reading 1,000 words a minute perfect comprehension. ![]() "There is a reading speed for comprehension that's optimal for each person, and of course, everyone's brain is different. who benchmarked himself reading 'A Tale of Two Cities,' and I encourage you to look at the results of what he tells his readers." There is a reporter for the Sun over in the U.K. It's just done by us to make sure that, you know, we know that people can do it. So, you know, it's not an academic study. "We have people reading books, and we test them, and they score higher when asked questions. And it's the same with this technique: you set your speed, the words flow in, your brain processes them, and believe it or not, even at that 600-word-per-minute speed you just heard, your brain can recognize those words." With a treadmill, you set the speed, hop on it - you don't have to worry about anything. You're body doesn't, you know, really get into the perfect speed, unless you run a lot. On the analogy of "a treadmill for your eyes" ![]() And so, by placing the word for you in a streaming text display, you're able to increase your reading speed effortlessly." So just placing each word in a spot where you don't have to move your eye saves you a lot of time, and that time, your brain can use to process the word you just read, and prepare for reading and recognizing the next word. About 80 percent of the time reading, conventionally, is spent moving your eye from one word to the next. "It positions words in a spot on a display where you can recognize the word, without moving your eye. Test more reading speeds on Spritz's website.Try Spritz at 250 words per minute (focus on the red letter): But does it really work? Some experts claim that good old-fashioned "skimming" is still the key to quick comprehension of texts.įrank Waldman, co-founder and CEO of Spritz, joins Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson to explain the how the technology works and his hopes for it. Boston-based tech startup Spritz recently released a new speed-reading technology that will soon become embedded in the many websites, apps and other wearable devices increasingly common to daily communication.īy showing users just one word at a time, the program establishes an "optimal recognition point" designed to speed reading rates anywhere from 100 to 1,000 words per minute. ![]()
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