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Make Twitter useable with the Tweak New Twitter Chrome extension
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Read text with the Reader Pen
Source: C-Pen Reader Although it is pricey at $250, the C-Pen Reader could be very useful for people with reading difficulties. The C-Pen Reader is a device that can read printed text to the reader just by scanning the text with the pen. That’s pretty cool!
The falling enrollment of education majors
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Search for free sound effects with FindSounds
Source: FindSounds – Browse for sounds Who doesn’t need sound effects? Whether it is for that multimedia project or that Scratch game, everyone needs a sound effect at some time or another. FindSounds is a search engine for free sounds. Unfortunately, even though you can play and download the sounds for free, who own the…
Your brain is not putting its best foot forward when reading text.
By analysing brain activity, researchers found that the brain regulates its resource use and tries to identify the most essential information.A recently completed study indicates that the human brain avoids taking unnecessary effort. When a person is reading, she strives to gain as much information as possible by dedicating as little of her cognitive capacity…