The average age of the children who get their first smartphone is now 10.3 years old

Today in the evolution of digital native: I, I have become advance copy of the new report of the impact center called Kids & Tech this week. Report - Children can use the technology, some interesting insights on the way you have to clear the USA- detailed survey results greater of the entire 500 women, it is a sub-section from the ongoing research. Highlights are as follows.

The average age of the children who get their first smartphone is now 10.3 years old
Tablet has jumped from 26% to 55% utilization as a child of the device of preference during the car ride. (From up to 39% in 2012) with 45%, smartphone trail.
Children of 64%, in 2012 compared to only 42%, you have access to the Internet through their laptops or tablet
39% of the children, to get the social media accounts of 11.4 years old. They are 11% when he was under 10 years old have an account of the social media.
In addition, some of the impact the center of the research, enabled in a very large number of devices, paint a picture of parents that are a little relaxed about children's access to the Internet.

While 85% are accessing family from the share of the room to the Internet in 2012, it reduced to that number today 76 percent, have a "private" access from 24% now their bedroom (2012 compared with the 15%)
Since I had never heard of the impact center to receiving this report before, I reached out to some of the questions. More specifically, I will, "the average age a child is subjected to a mobile phone" at least one of the reports from around 2015 pins in six or seven years when the words to Google that, the company's CEO / founder Stacy DeBroff asked, 10 (exist but not, originally someone called vouchercloud) some speculation there is about the validity of other reports that have been carried out.

In any case, DeBroff, but she will not be able to comment on the findings of other reports, not only focuses on the ownership of specific children's smartphone their research, telephone and children-specific phone I answered that there was also. "Question you how old I was a kid, if you purchase a smartphone / mobile phone for your child. That" asked in the questionnaire of their 70, there was actually a

She is in the past, mobile phone, simply has been used by children who have contact with parents and voice, he went on to say that feels like. In recent years, children will use them more and more enabled games and productivity in the smartphone, for activities beyond the simple contact with the parents, such as a host.

Study participants is not that it was the mother only father, also, why did you ask me too? DeBroff, this is in order to maintain the integrity of the 2012 report because it was a follow-up, and has answered. It is the same in this new study, the exact 500 women, was not quite similar sample of women in the same life stage as the previous survey.

Unknown remains some things, (for example, children have their own phone number and the data plan), ownership of this newly discovered smartphone, whether it is tied to an independent wireless account, they are a smart phone simply with whether the Wi-Fi feature is the hand-me-downs. Question of the investigation, did not go into details of this level.

Regardless, it is, to me would use of the device will increase makes sense. Many of the adults, and every year to get a new smartphone, certainly recently would not have been used at home, there is a stock of possible smartphone.

I also influence Central must be noted that it is marketing agency - of data and interpretation has been familiar with the child's mobile phone, they are now, to think how to communicate with both of them in the future it is that it is important action for the brand should be taken into account. Mobility is a way of life they were accustomed to easily.

When I was a child, during the excavation, or riding a bicycle in the dirt, soccer, through the regeneration of the unmanned, possibly my nostalgic memories of his nose that just replaced by the children of portraits that look like their parents to me is a little sad smart phone that you are buried but to. At the same time, what of today's children is possible than ever before, not just deny that have adapted to the tools available to them. In order to avoid these tools, it does not make much sense.

I suppose it always was down just to the life balance. However, as (10-year-old parents with account of data with or smartphone) smartphone addiction myself, I will be here for that dont a good thing to do child-rearing is not trying to be your spiritual adviser. However, the data speaks for itself, would not be done any good to ignore it.

3D printing custom-made wheelchair debut at the Design Week in London

All of a movement - In a possible platform, wheelchair itself is fairly static. Or in a handful of may also be set to not have to be adapted to the user's specific conditions, steel and aluminum frames to support the leather or plastic foam is filled. 3D printing has been made to fit the exact shape and the needs of the rider wheelchair: London design company, has been working from two years ago in order to create an alternative.

GO wheelchair is due to (HU-GO, please do not be confused with other 3D printing wheelchair project) Benjamin Hubert, director of the brainchild of the London design agency layer.

"It seemed like a kind overlooked many of the cottage industry," Hubert told to TechCrunch in an interview. "Different injury, disability, body shapes and sizes, in some of the many fitting problems in order to answer, just by using the establishment only of technology, or by obtaining a low price point, there are a lot of opportunity to push things forward. "
GO is not just catch all of the design happens to be a possible 3D printing. Layer, to create a customized process of end-to-end, has partnered with the 3D design company Materialise. The user's body is actually scan, their needs will be evaluated. That information is combined with the one-piece sheet made to its specifications.

People who have lost a leg, things are, while you can be adjusted to take her off-center balance to account, for example, a person with a backup in the middle of the spinal cord injury is high and back more support there are times when the seat back is required. Made seats in order to measure, perhaps, many users spend in their own chair, is a more comfortable experience a lot of time.

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"This is in order to cope with the very sensitive user base of needs, it turned out to be a very viable solution for something that requires a form that has been adjusted very finely," Hubert Told.

The only sheet (printed on the large-format device - it is, the desktop does not come from the printer) (sintered aluminum for durability) and the footrest has been custom-designed. The remainder in order to reduce the cost, is composed of off-the-shelf parts, repair simple.

GO- gloves -2The company is in dialogue with the wheelchair users, we designed things in their feedback. GO is (a tank that "these chairs in your own right," said Hubert) that pretty is not ready for the wheelchair basketball, players were consulted anyway.

Heavy users proposed a one other improvement: push rim on the wheel is, usually, is a round of only metal - not the best of simple and durable for grip, actually poor ergonomics is, stress injury it can lead to. Layer has designed a sheath with a special glove to use for it and the texture of the "most BMX bike" grip.

Creation process, after the biometrics have been collected, they will be terminated by the user in the app that allows you to select the print color and any element. Layers to produce a chair a much shorter wait than other custom solutions in two weeks, we argue that it is possible to provide.

Now GO remains in the form of a prototype, and will be at the end of the exhibition of this month at the Design Week of Clerkenwell. Hubert has been described that is almost finished design, now is facing scrutiny from the European response to the National Health Service and the FDA. However, health care providers, a wheelchair manufacturer, is interested already in the design sports companies, he added.

Google is Android studio update, released a faster version

Google is updating faster, overall through its Android of studio development environment for upgrading under the hood that'll make it. The company has announced a new tool at the developer conference of the Google's I / O of Mountain View.

That developers of experience make it easy, it is important to capture the moment of the monopoly over the App Store, Android, very for companies such as Google to encourage developers to build the first application It is important. It is, ultimately, to convince the people to go for the Android device in front of the iPhone and iPad can be - and all of the applications store is riding on you have the best app.

Here, the new features under the hood is as follows.

Emulator, three times faster than they are used to be the studio 2.1 of Android. This is always a huge point of pain for developers who need to monitor the experience and tuning of the application.
Build speed has become faster. Again, this is another point of great pain for developers, since waste per second to build the application, or to fine-tune the code, not been spent building a new function, which is the second, is.

All of these are, but appears to be upgraded in the hood there are a lot of, again, these kind of upgrade is important in order to convince the developer to stick to Android manufacturers as IDE to their go. 92% of the applications on the Google Play store is built using the Android manufacturers, the company has said.

Developers, you can pick up the beta version of today.

Alphabet CEO Larry Page defends Androids use of Java APIs in court

Alphabet Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and co-founder Larry Page of Google, during the ongoing legal battle with Oracle, has defended the development of his company in today's Android platform. Oracle is, Android developers, claimed to have copied some of the proprietary code from Java, has sued Google in 2010. Google was free of the code is for the engineers to use the open source problem, and implementation of Java code in Android, has maintained that it was sufficient change to be considered a fair use you.

Page, testified that he litigation is now, despite the fact that has been dragging on over the course of five years, had the most knowledge of the details of the engineering of a problem android in this case Did. However, he is if it was using the Java declare the code of the Android, Google has disputed claims of Oracle that stole the intellectual property of its own. "When Sun is establishing of Java, they have established it as one of the open source," Page said. "We do not pay for the free and open ones."

He is, to obtain a license from Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle has acquired after, saying the copy, without having to re-implement the API practices of standard industry issues, to use the API, Google It has defended the decision. The page, his company of coding is suggested that would fall under the fair use, it has insisted the API and Google's implementation is the original and change.

"We have a very responsible around the intellectual property issues, I think that was carefully action" page was explained.

Oracle lawyers, Android ecosystem is, every year sales said to have been $ 43 billion generated, was presented the page in Google's slide deck. However, large-scale income described in the slide of the page, rather than enter into Google's pocket, it was claimed to have not been in the mobile phone manufacturers and carriers. "I, Google do not know how long it has been implicated," page is added that there is a carrier, such as Verizon, I had a testimony, "a lot of money, it is not any good for Google."

Page, founded Google, we discussed the acquisition of Android. When he was in addition to the mobile phone and frustrating the market, he said he was interested in the construction of the smartphone.

"Many that I, Java was the running, was once super frustrated and the state of the phone. They did not work very well in practice. You can even take a photo when a person and share it it could not be. we have to be able to test them, we had a full closet of hundred phone. they are working in all different, we are that our software is to work on them could not. it was frustrating incredible, "page was explained.

He is, he is to be able to as many people as possible expand access to their own search engine, he added that Google wanted to develop a mobile phone. "We will take full advantage of our money from Google search, we want to be people can access it, even if you do not have very much money," Page said.

Oracle and if Google is today, it has presented its final witness. If the argument of the closing is scheduled to start on Monday judges whether the Java API Google of use is fair use will consider next week.

Android app will be able to react to your environment currently

If where you have had to know the app on your mobile phone, or you were doing, to What 's close, but if the weather was any such thing to the outside, and, your current situation Do you combine this information to respond to intelligently? Could it be weird or wonderful? We will find out soon, it is so. In this week's Google I / O conference, the company, they have introduced a new tool for that in the current context will be able to create an application to customize yourself and app developers of the user.

For example, streaming music application displays the energetic playlist when you connect your headphones, you can start jogging.

Or, app can issue a warning to stop by the pharmacy to pick up your medicine - but, you are in the vicinity of the store, it would be so only if it was driving, and the store is not actually open year.

In order to enable these types of smarter applications, Google is its I / O conference has introduced a new will be available immediately after the wrap "Awareness of the API".

For example, access to the user's position, they are now, such as the recognition that you are driving your car - in fact, this API, via the other API, available in previous it combines a variety of functions. It also, it means that you can device and interoperability, such as Android Wear of use of the data from things like smartwatches or Chromecast of (Google cast) and Google's new smart speaker,, Google home, close to the beacon and you can sense the device.

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Google, this feature, as a method that may be implemented in future applications, in addition to the above example, we suggested a number of use cases.

For example, in a smarter alarm clock app, to stay until the night before, your first meeting, I was able to decide when to awaken you based on how the second half at the time of the day.

The weather application, Chromecast senses plugged into your bedroom TV, was able to predict the weather for the day on the screen.

Assistant of the application, you can evoke the Google home to tell that the time has come to leave for a calendar event.

App running immediately even if you forgot to start tracking function, there is a possibility to log a run for you.

Because it knows that you take a lot of nature pictures outdoors, the launcher application when you're outside, you can put the front and center of your camera app. And when you want to snap a photo, as an added bonus, it will be tagged weather and activities and it. This is because, as can be searched later, become a part of the photo of the meta-data, "shooting outdoor photos of the running, it was sunny outside."

Developers If you use more than one API, some of these features, it was previously possible. However, Google or drain the battery, the device can be slowly run to use the amount of RAM due to the increase, according to the conditions, I explained that it is calling for more of the API.

This is, even if the user is to uninstall it from their mobile phone, perhaps frustrated in the app, it may lead to.

Masu-around of API

The new consciousness API is, then, not only offers the convenience to request all of the information about the status of the more easily a user, while optimizing for the health of the system, so be it. It or slow the app is a mobile phone, without killing the battery, it means that you get smarter.

App to react to the current situation (fence API), you can request information about the current context of the other user (snapshot API) 1 - consciousness of the API, is actually two separate API It contains.

Google proposed example is interesting sound of is the inspiring part is a little less of the early access use cases of the implementation real world by partners who had to API.



The real estate app Trulia is, for example, uses the API for smart to push notification. It you are walking, and only in the case of a close, it alerts you to visit the open house, is, it's nice outside.

Runkeeper is, you will be able to tag an article running in the current weather.

In order to Gurabuhabu and aviary also personalize their apps, it has been take advantage of the weather.

Latin American music streaming app Superplayer music, however, I'm looking forward to a little more. It is you, you will propose the music based on the location of what you're doing. If it becomes your only gym, it is you, for example, than if you are trying to start a road trip, and proposes a different music.



It will be you to display the right app at the right time meaning - and the Android launcher Nova is to be context aware, we are considering rewriting the app.

When you create an awareness of context mobile experience, in many cases, Yahoo won in 2014. However, people are, so far is their mobile phone of the user interface, with a launcher, the form of like a high-speed flight of the launcher, which has been resistance with overhaul in response to its surroundings, other start-up has been attempted before Thing.



It is to become embedded in the more deeply the app itself, which is why it makes sense for this situational awareness. Instead, they ask you to re-adjust the way you use your mobile phone to the user, experience of using a mobile phone is just notification is smarter, as can be less troublesome, what app doing in response to that, the better and more seamless interoperability with other devices around you.

Tally, credit card, raises $ 15M (1500 million) for the application in order to facilitate an inexpensive management

San Francisco-based tally Technologies, fee, while avoiding the expenses and other credit card membership pain, in venture financing of Series A for people to start a promise application in order to help maintain a good credit $ 15M (1500 million) was raised. Shasta Ventures, led the Series A, previous patron of the company took part - cowboy Ventures and AITV. Silicon Valley Bank also has investment.

According to the tally, CEO and co-founder Jason Brown, to the company has been operating in the longer stealth than this year, it has been tested a beta customer and the service of about three months.

Here, the work of the tally app, Brown describes how are as follows. User is allowed to start to pay these bills from being issued to the credit of the tally line, through a simple credit score check, it is possible to scan all of their personal credit cards to tally you.

"Average and of. Capita 3.7" Brown said, "Most of the adults in the United States, have more than one personal credit card" and, at least 4 out of 10 of all US households, late fees racking, and carry the balance of your credit card, you pay the interest.

8 employees of start-up, the customer is you can avoid all of the late fees and other expenses of these, all of them offers the April to slightly lower position than the average in April of their cards. If customers do not pay off their entire tally balance, the company will make money in April under the, again, they are the amount, will the customer had to pay other banks This promises to be lower than the thing.

Previously, cowboy Ventures has led the seed round of $ 2 million company. Managing Director Sean Flynn of Irene Lee and Shasta Ventures of cowboy Ventures is, will sit on top of the tally of the board. Flynn said, in order to make start-up the service is widely known, and through a phased deployment, in order to bring the user to the application, he said that the plan to use the funding of its Series A.


Tully also, it is possible to provide a credit line, because there is a need to raise institutional capital from there, the customer is, proved to be a good credit risk, we need to develop a partnership in the financial industry there is.

As a company, Shasta was shunned from face the challenge of alternative investment to, or the lending club is now under surveillance peer-to-peer lending platforms such as prosperity, and serious growth away.

Flynn, whether they go to college, not just tally when you need a loan around the big life events such as buying a house, because the appeal of the start-up of services in widely people consistently, other non-bank He said that it seemed to be different from the financial services company.

"Tally, the customer is, to bear the charges or fees for managing a plurality of credit cards, to solve the first problem you do not know the payment to," Flynn told. "They are a lot of people you can apply it is an elegant solution. "

Brown has said the tally, however, have benefited from the success of the alternative lending start-up "before.

Edyn in order to put the home garden on autopilot, debut a smart water valve

User automatically gardens and can be used to irrigate lawns water valve is connected to the Internet: Auckland, Edyn this week based in California, new, began sales of smart gardening equipment.

Edyn water valve, in order to adjust the moisture level in the soil, together with the local weather forecast system, uses the company's Edyn Garden sensor, the data from the soil sensor. If the user wants, they can adjust their own irrigation system using the Edyn smartphone app.

Sold for $ 69, weighs 8 oz less than Edyn water valve, and adapted to the Wi-Fi support and the standard garden hose at the solar-powered. Edyn system, a hose connected to the kitchen sink, if necessary, was designed to be small enough for use in the garden of the window box.

Recently, CEO and founder of Jason Arumburu of Edyn new water valve is in San Francisco, Farmscape maintained by urban agriculture STEM Kitchen & Garden, in how it works showed a TechCrunch.

Edyn previously Fenox venture capital, idea light bulb Ventures, Morning Group, indicator venture, received seed funding from Y Combinator, was the startup battlefield of finalists.

Rachio Inc., Koubachi AG, other hardware manufacturers, such as the parrot of iConservo Inc. and drone high-tech companies, offers a competitive product. But Edyn has gained traction in the market, which was crowded for horticulture technology.

The company's products are sold in stores of Home Depot, the company plans to add immediately the retailer of new bricks and mortar, Arumburu says.