Nine percent respond to at least one text every time they drive, while 13 percent of them read a text or email while driving.
Now, you can lock the orientation sensor and pretty much never encounter this issue again (we can't ever really imagine needing to read a text-based book with adjustable font sizes in landscape mode, after all), but it seemed worth mentioning given it goes unchanged since the previous version.
Texting While Driving Remains Pervasive: More than a quarter of teens (26 percent) read or send a text message at least once every time they drive.
The UMTRI recently found that 26 percent of teen drivers surveyed said they read or sent a text message from a smartphone at least once every time they take the wheel.
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As a consequence, there are those of faith who confuse mythos with logos - that is, they read a story or sacred text and interpret what is intended to be a symbolic aspect of spiritual life and treat it literally, as though the story happened historically or happened exactly as described.
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The neuroscience of literacy suggests that, sometimes, the best way to make sense of a difficult text is to read it in a difficult format, to force our brain to slow down and process each word.
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The smaller form factor makes the Nexus 7 ideal for reading books, and magazines are a joy to read here as well, thanks in part to a "text view" mode that pulls the text from an article out of its magazine layout and into a more easily consumable e-book-style view.
The right side of the brain (also called right hemisphere) recognizes shapes and colors, while the left side of the brain processes information in an analytical and sequential way and is more active when people read text or look at a spreadsheet.
Kurzweil told the story of how he had begun work on software for a tiny machine that could read text to the blind years before the hardware was available to make it feasible.
The girl said she believed she was assaulted when she later read text messages among friends and saw a photo of herself taken that night, along with a video that made fun of her and the alleged attack.
The FBI said that before Tsarnaev's roommate let the three friends into the room, Kadyrbayev received a text message from Tsarnaev that read: "I'm about to leave if you need something in my room take it, " according to the FBI.
From what we've seen, there appears to be plenty of space on the screen to show incoming calls, read emails with eight lines of text at a time, view appointment details, select songs and control volume, and, of course, see the current time.
The majority of the sample was able to perform as high as level four (out of five) of the literacy test, meaning they were able to read, comprehend and answer questions about a simple text, and level three in numeracy, i.e. they were able to perform basic arithmetic operations.
If you're itching to read a full rundown of the findings, the full text can be accessed via the source link below.
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Along the top you'll see the home button, the percentage of the text you've read, battery life and a button for settings.
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And, let's face it, it's easier and quicker to view a couple of dozen pictures rather than read that number of text entries.
Agent Corey Walsh read passage after passage from emails and text messages between Officer Gilberto Valle and a man the government said used Moody Blues as a screen name and MeatMarketMan as an email address.
"It's important for one reason to make them more confident and also to enhance their vocabulary and their language, because as an adult you can read books that are a little more difficult or challenging and they become familiar with the text and that sort of literature, " he said.
The UI supports a rich set of services, including phone calls, text messaging with vocal read-out, navigation, object recognition, social network services, remote assistance, audio-book reading, and other leisure and entertainment offerings.
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E-ink felt significantly more like printed text than a sometimes glare-prone tablet screen, which was difficult to read in bright sunlight.
Amusing fact turned up in a survey of teenagers by Allstate: 12.8% admit to having read or written text messages while driving.
That lets you read the text in attachments like Word and Acrobat files and see pictures in grayscale, like a BlackBerry on steroids.
The Printing Dress is a Microsoft Research creation that is essentially a screen that allows you to text your thoughts onto the dress for everyone to read.
But given the fact that the Paperwhite has a higher resolution than its closest competitor (the GlowLight) and the newer technology means a generally smoother light distribution, the text is sharper and easier-to-read than on any other Kindle.
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The dark menu with white text is easy to read, and the inbox itself is easy on the eyes with a light font.
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R. 4646, referred to as the Debt Free America Act, is a bill introduced by Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) in 2010 ( read the full text here).
Siri can be used to call people, select and play music, hear and compose text messages, get directions, read notifications, find calendar information and add reminders, all on a hands-free basis.
Some of the new offerings: free software that can tailor the text on any Web site to your personal visual needs, and a cellphone that can snap photos of text -- like signs and restaurant menus -- and read it back to you.
The app does struggle to read lots of text, text that is in bad light, or any text at all if your hand is a bit shaky.
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