When you think of pollution, you think of car emissions, aerosol sprays and similar things, right? Does your cell phone ever come to mind? Researchers say it should. Millions of cell phones are sold each year. Some are replacements for a broken unit; many are simply upgrades to the newest and most advanced model. The [...]
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Japanese readers have been enjoying a new kind of novel since their invention in 2003. The proud creator of this first innovative phenomenon is a young writer named Yoshi who wrote and published the first cell phone novel. It was a story about a teenage prostitute in the city of Tokyo titled Deep Love. This [...]
Originally created to aid the hearing impaired communicate, text messaging has become one of the mostly widely used communication methods among all people. Since its conception in the early 90’s, popularity and text usage has grown tremendously. Each year, the amount of text messages being transmitted has grown from hundreds to thousands to now billions.
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Long gone are the Saturday evenings spent sitting around the dining room table dealing Uno cards or tallying Yahtzee scores. If you hand a board game to many kids today, they will probably spend twenty minutes trying to figure out where the USB ports are. I am not saying today’s kids are not smart. Believe [...]
The thought of speaking to another person or animal with the mind and understanding a communicable source of language between the two entities has intrigued everyone from everyday people to scientists. The practical uses for such methods of communication could revolutionize the world in both civil and private matters. Many attempts to gain this type [...]
Sign language is the language that uses many different forms of non-verbal communication. Lip patterns, body language, and specific hand gestures all play key roles in the language of signing. Anyone can learn sign language fairly easily, and it is quite useful for discarding the barrier between deaf people and people who can hear. It [...]
Body Language is a beautiful thing that exists between all animals, especially humans. We constantly display movements and signals that tell when we are sad, happy, or feeling romantic. Body language is sometimes difficult to interpret, because we rely more on words than our body’s natural instinct. Humans are also able to easily manipulate their [...]
Ever since privacy became an issue for those with sensitive writing materials and even spoken language, people have been creating secret coded languages to help disguise and confuse those who do not know how to decode the messages. In time, many of these secret codes became more complex and allowed for people to communicate in [...]
