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By SharpBrains | October 1, 2015

UC River­side Pro­fes­sor Slams Feds, Stands By His Health App (KQED): “UC River­side pro­fes­sor of psy­chol­o­gy Aaron Seitz had an idea for a mobile health app based on his area of research.…Seitz is the aca­d­e­m­ic behind UltimEyes, the vision improve­ment app that got dinged by the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion (FTC) for $150,000 last week for mak­ing deceptive…

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Apple names brain training apps “Best of 2014” in 20+ countries

By SharpBrains | December 17, 2014

Brain train­ing is going mobile, and glob­al. Not only did Apple name one brain train­ing app (Ele­vate) “Best App of the Year” in the US, across all cat­e­gories, but it hand­picked anoth­er brain train­ing app (Peak) as one of the top apps in 20+ coun­tries. In the UK: “Apple named video edi­tor Replay as its…

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Apple names brain training app “2014 App of the Year”

By SharpBrains | December 10, 2014

Apple names its top apps of 2014 (Mash­able): “It’s a good day for Ele­vate, which was just named Apple’s favorite app of 2014. The app, which helps you improve mem­o­ry and focus, was Apple’s top pick of the year. The run­n­er-up was Insta­gram’s Hyper­lapse, which speeds up shaky videos and turns them into time laps­es in…

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Will the Apple Tablet Support or Hinder Users Cognitive Fitness?

By Luc P. Beaudoin | January 26, 2010 |

Rumor has it that Apple is going to announce a tablet com­put­er, which may well become a rev­o­lu­tion­ary new way for users to read and expe­ri­ence all kinds of edu­ca­tion­al con­tent. Will it sup­port or hin­der our Cog­ni­tive  Fit­ness? In this arti­cle, I describe the cri­te­ria that a tablet com­put­er and its tech­no­log­i­cal ecosys­tem must…

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