Topic: smart phones
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Don't Worry About Kids and Touch Screens, Worry About the Parents
Smart phones can help manage the tedium of parenting. But they also isolate us from a lot of the joy.
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Maps
Why It's Nearly Impossible to Make GPS Work for India
A "classic example of copy-pasting a first world solution in an emerging economy."
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Why Losing Google Maps on the iPhone Is a Good Thing
Apple Maps is so flawed it's forcing users to discover even better, city-specific alternatives.
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Can Our Smart Phones Convince Us to Walk More?
How Americans might be able to leverage technology to get back in our pedestrian groove.
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An App to Help You Lose Yourself in the City
Drift wants you to "unfamiliarize" yourself in familiar places.
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How Smart Phones Are Turning Our Public Places Into Private Ones
Smart phones have given us a lot of great benefits, but this is not one of them.
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Virtual Murals for Real-Life Buildings
The new frontier of augmented reality apps comes to urban art.
