Some experts say that rectangles with rounded corners are easier on the eyes than a rectangle with sharp edges because they take less cognitive effort to visually process. The fovea is fastest at processing circles. Processing edges involve more “neuronal image tools” in the brain [1]. Thus, rectangles with rounded corners are easier process because they look closer to a circle than a regular rectangle.

It’s an incredible cache of some awesome photography, preserved on glass negatives in a chest in a French attic for nearly a century. A treat for historians and photography geeks alike.

Update: Facebook admins have been kind enough to finally let us use the nice human readable url: http://www.facebook.com/lostdiggers

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Many a Sci-Fi writer has a decent take on this phenomenon in the future with their stories of massively wireless interconnected minds and the way people stare off into nowhere with absent eyes when they are busy communicating.

Way cool.

Found on boing boing.

An interesting calculation would be to see if the energy discipated by the waste heat of the old bulbs year round equals the energy required to keep the lights usable in the winter, in countries that have snow.

We’ve had LED lights here in the greater Sydney region for a while now, and I don’t think anyone has come across this issue here (it doesn’t snow in Sydney).

It’s an interesting concept, and could well take off, though the starting price of 700 USD seems a little steep to me. As Havoc mentions it’s all about build quality and attention to purpose when designing the thing and he does seem to have a point. I know I use several different PC’s and laptops around the house to do all the things the litl webbook is trying to wrap in one user friendly device.