Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet Is Hot: Google’s new tablet, the Nexus 7, which was just introduced this month, is selling like proverbial hot cakes! There are two versions of the tablet an 8 GB ($199) version and a 16 GB ($249) version, and it is the 16 GB version that is sold out.
CNET reviewer Eric Franklin gave the 7” tablet high praise noting in his review that “With a beautiful screen, fast performance, a comfortable design, and overall great media options, the Nexus 7 is easily the best 7-inch tablet available and one of the top tablets on the market” and tech fans seem to agree as they have thus far snapped up so many of the 16 GB version of the tablet that there is now a waiting list for it!
Here are links to two news stories on the subject:
The first is to a CNET article, with a link to the Eric Franklin review, titled Nexus 7 16 GB Tablet Out Of Stock At Google Play Store:
And the second article is from The Guardian and is titled Google halts new orders for 16GB Nexus 7, surprised by demand; here’s the link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jul/22/google-nexus-7-16-surprise?newsfeed=true
iPods Benefit Nursing Home Residents: The technological revolution has put an iPod in almost everyone’s pocket it seems. However, social worker Dan Cohen realized that there is one place within our society were technology hasn’t really permeated and that local consists of the approximately 18,000 nursing homes in North America – and in those nursing homes there are no computers or iPods or Wi-Fi; so in essence, the high tech revolution has passed the residents of those nursing homes by. And Mr. Cohen wondered if nursing home residents would benefit from being given their own iPods with pre-installed music of the era in which those residents were young. So Mr. Cohen introduced iPods to a nursing home and found that not only did nursing home residents respond to the music but that for many residents the music brought them out of themselves and had them interacting with the world again! Residents who hadn’t spoken in a long time were found to speak and even to sing after having music played to them on their iPods for a regular period of time. Mr. Cohen’s findings were backed up by a study done by The Atlantic Institute of Aging of New Brunswick, Canada and with studies done by neurologists like Oliver Sacks who famously recorded his work in the best selling book Musicophilia.
Here’s a link to a Venturebeat article titled iPods for seniors: viral hit “Alive Inside” still needs your help on Kickstarter that offers more information on the subject:
Linda R.
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