“Controlling devices in a smart home often requires users to start and use an app on their phone. This can be cumbersome (especially with increasing sizes of device ensembles) and puts demands on a user’s attention or engagement they might not be willing or able to fulfill.” – prompting a research team from the University of […]
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A three-minute 24-second struggle with the laws of physics
This video, 3:24 in duration*, shows a struggle to insert one object into another. It’s a struggle against some known, but perhaps not fully understood, laws of Newtonian physics. It is also perhaps an illustration of the Dunning-Kruger effect. * give or take a second BONUS: The 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for psychology was awarded to David Dunning of […]