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E-book insomnia: Kindles, iPads disrupt sleep patterns

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E-book insomnia

– E-book insomnia: Kindles, iPads disrupt sleep patterns (RT, Dec 23, 2014):

Before discarding your dusty paperback books for their sleek electronic versions, consider that the bright light emitted from electronic handheld devices wreak havoc on the body’s natural sleep pattern.

Bibliophiles may have just scored a victory in the ongoing contest between ‘real’ books and their electronic equivalents, with scientists discovering that people who use an iPad or a Kindle before bed get less sleep.

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Apple’s Steve Jobs Didn’t Let His Own Children Use iPads

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– Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent (New York Times, Sep 10, 2014):

When Steve Jobs was running Apple, he was known to call journalists to either pat them on the back for a recent article or, more often than not, explain how they got it wrong. I was on the receiving end of a few of those calls. But nothing shocked me more than something Mr. Jobs said to me in late 2010 after he had finished chewing me out for something I had written about an iPad shortcoming.

“So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company’s first tablet was just hitting the shelves. “They haven’t used it,” he told me. “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”

I’m sure I responded with a gasp and dumbfounded silence. I had imagined the Jobs’s household was like a nerd’s paradise: that the walls were giant touch screens, the dining table was made from tiles of iPads and that iPods were handed out to guests like chocolates on a pillow.

Nope, Mr. Jobs told me, not even close.

Since then, I’ve met a number of technology chief executives and venture capitalists who say similar things: they strictly limit their children’s screen time, often banning all gadgets on school nights, and allocating ascetic time limits on weekends.

I was perplexed by this parenting style. After all, most parents seem to take the opposite approach, letting their children bathe in the glow of tablets, smartphones and computers, day and night.

Yet these tech C.E.O.’s seem to know something that the rest of us don’t.

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The Tax Free World Tour (Documentary)

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Mar 25, 2013

“Where do multinationals pay taxes and how much?” Gaining insight from international tax experts, Backlight director Marije Meerman (‘Quants’ & ‘Money & Speed’), takes a look at tax havens, the people who live there and the routes along which tax is avoided globally.

Those routes go by resounding names like ‘Cayman Special’, ‘Double Irish’, and ‘Dutch Sandwich’. A financial world operates in the shadows surrounded by a high level of secrecy. A place where sizeable capital streams travel the world at the speed of light and avoid paying tax. The Tax Free Tour is an economic thriller mapping the systemic risk for governments and citizens alike. Is this the price we have to pay for globalised capitalism?

At the same time, the free online game “Taxodus” by Femke Herregraven is launched. In the game, the player can select the profile of a multinational and look for the global route to pay as little tax as possible.

research: William de Bruijn
camera: Jean Counet
montage: Bart van den Broek
geluid: Tim van Peppen, Benny Jansen, Joris van Ballegoijen
productie: Marie Schutgens
animaties: Bitcaves & Motoko

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The Ultimate Zombie Tool: ‘Newborn-To-Toddler Apptivity™ Seat For iPad® Device’

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– 38% Of Toddlers Use Mobile Devices Under The Age Of Two

– Toddlers Becoming So Addicted To iPads They Require Therapy

– iPad WiFi Radiation With Wireless Router On (RF Meter with Sound) (Video)

– Newborn-to-Toddler Apptivity™ Seat for iPad® device (Fisher-Price):

Description:

Soothing, entertaining and technology all in one great grow-with-me seat for baby! Lock your iPad® device inside the case to protect from dribbles and drool. Play and learning are at baby’s fingertips, with free apps you can download for your iPad®. Look for apps with black and white images to enhance visual skills, soothing apps with nature scenes, learning apps and more. With all the fun and excitement of apps, this seat still has all the great features of a baby seat: Overhead toys, motion, adjustable 3-position seat recline, rotating toy bar and a mirror that reflects baby’s image when your iPad® device is removed. Easy adjustments let you extend the use from newborn to toddler. Durable case for all generations of iPad®, excluding iPad® mini. iPad® device not included.

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Doctors Raise Red Flag: Young Children Should Avoid Using iPads

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– Toddlers Becoming So Addicted To iPads They Require Therapy

– iPad WiFi Radiation With Wireless Router On (RF Meter with Sound) (Video)

– Doctors Raise Red Flag: Young Children Should Avoid Using Tablets (CBS, Nov 14, 2103):

ROSEDALE, Md. (WJZ) — Tablets and toddlers: A warning for parents of tech-savvy children. The American Academy of Pediatrics says children under two should avoid all screen time.

Jessica Kartalija reports doctors and therapists fear too much time on touchscreens could cause long-term damage.

Playtime for babies is far different in the 21st century. But parents could be making a big mistake putting touchscreens in the hands of toddlers and young children.

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LA Officials May Delay School iPad Rollout After Students Hack Them In A Week

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– LA officials may delay school iPad rollout after students hack them in a week (engadget, Sep 26, 2013):

Just a week after it began the first phase of putting iPads in the hands of all 640,000 students in the region, the Los Angeles school district already has a fight on its hands. In a matter of days, 300 children at Theodore Roosevelt High School managed to work around protective measures placed on the Apple tablets, giving them complete access to features — including Facebook, Twitter and other apps — that should otherwise have been blocked.

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Toddlers Becoming So Addicted To iPads They Require Therapy

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From the article:

“Parents who have found themselves unable to wean their children off computer games and mobile phones are paying up to £16,000 for a 28-day “digital detox” programme designed by Dr Graham at the Capio Nightingale clinic in London.”

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– iPad WiFi Radiation With Wireless Router On (RF Meter with Sound) (Video)

Children as young as four are becoming so addicted to smartphones and iPads that they require psychological treatment.

 

A young schoolboy left his family with a £2000 credit card bill after using an app on his grandfather’s iPad.

– Toddlers becoming so addicted to iPads they require therapy (Telegraph, April 21, 2013):

Experts have warned that parents who allow babies and toddlers to access tablet computers for several hours a day are in danger of causing “dangerous” long term effects.

The youngest known patient being treated in the UK is a four-year-old girl from the South East.

Her parents enrolled her for compulsive behaviour therapy after she became increasingly “distressed and inconsolable” when the iPad was taken away from her.

Her use of the device had escalated over the course of a year and she had become addicted to using it up for to four hours a day.

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iPad WiFi Radiation With Wireless Router On (RF Meter with Sound) (Video)

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YouTube Added: 07.03.2013

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Doctors groups around the world have spoken up to call for Precaution against wireless radiation and for reduction of exposure, especially on Children, Youth, Pregnant Women and Babies.

Medical Advisory: Statements from 14 Agencies on Wi-Fi Radiation and Children’s Health
http://www.safeinschool.org/2013/02/m…

Harvard Neurologist Warns: WiFi Radiation can Damage Children’s Brain Function
http://goo.gl/Okafv

This Video: Measuring the pulsed microwave radiation from an iPad with an Acoustimeter. The rapid and continuous pulsing is the beacon signals emitted by the router (similar to celltower beacon signals). The irregular spikes are emitted by the iPad.

Swisscom, Switzerland’s largest IT services provider, recognized the genotoxic effects of WiFi routers. In 2003 they attempted to reduce this danger through an automatically-deactivated router design. Unfortunately, North American manufacturers have not adopted this patent, but continue to produce WiFi routers which bombard humans and all living beings with microwave beacon signals, 24/7. The Swisscom document with the explanation on the genotoxicity can be found here:
http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en…

The maximum measuring threshold of the Acoustimeter is 6.0 V/m and the radiation from the iPad exceeded this level often while actively on WiFi. We measured a WiFi-iPad and found that its signals peak every few seconds at levels that are several times HIGHER than an iPhone on talking transmission. See:
http://www.safeinschool.org/2012/01/i…

Here are some exposure limits in other countries which correspond to the levels indicated on the Acoustimter.

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