DAWN TO DUSK NEWS: reading speed

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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Triple
Your Reading Speed with the Help of This New App</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">John F. Kennedy claimed to be able to read 1,200 words per minute
— a skill that seems only fathomable for the genetically blessed clan of
Camelot. But with the debut of Spritz, a new
speed-reading app that premiered at Mobile World Congress this week, the
ability to blaze through <i>War and Peace</i> could be closer than you
think. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The new reading technology will launch in April as part of <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Samsung’s Galaxy S5 and Gear 2</span>
smartwatch</span>. Its makers claim it can double or even triple your
average reading pace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Understanding how it works, however, requires a quick lesson in how
we read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Unless you read Arabic or Hebrew, you’re probably accustomed to
moving your eyes along lines of text from left to right, deciphering each
word as you go. According to the <span style="color: blue;">company’s blog</span>, your eye looks for a certain spot
within each word called the “optimal recognition point.” Once your eyes have
locked onto the ORP, it’s only then that your mind registers the meaning of the
text at which you’re staring. In between, punctuation acts as a signal for your
brain to assemble those words into a coherent thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">During that process, your eyes spend about 80 percent of the time
just physically moving from one word to the next. The remaining 20 percent is
dedicated to actually digesting the information you’re reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Spritz claims to be able to “help you get all that time back”
by aligning words in a way that saves you eye movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Take, for instance, the figures below. The ORPs are highlighted in
red. As you can see, the best fixation point is different for each word.
Basically, as a word gets longer, the farther to the left of the center your
eyes have to travel to locate the ORP. If the ORPs are not aligned, as in
the first image, it takes your eye extra time to read.</span><img alt="image" height="331" id="yui_3_12_0_1_1393853991939_809" src="https://s3.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w500/d9111307c2af8e0dd671b6555a8bfda02c685553" width="500" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To reduce that waste, Spritz presents words to you one at a time,
centered around each individual ORP. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">At first it feels a bit like a rapid-fire assault. The Spritz
module commands attention, but it is especially helpful on a smaller screen
like my iPhone. And I can only imagine what a godsend it’d be for Google Glass
— and Glass could even tell when you weren’t looking at the text and pause playback. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There are, of course, downsides to a box that shoots words at you
(the most obvious being that if you’re distracted by something, you miss an
entire paragraph). But the company is aiming to license this technology for
maps, photos, videos and websites, which means that there will most likely be
an option to repeat a paragraph (or two) in the mix as well. No word on if or
when it’ll come out for iOS or Android.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Posted By : Muhammad usman</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Source:yahoo news</span></i></b></div>
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Triple Your Reading Speed with the Help of This New App

Triple Your Reading Speed with the Help of This New App John F. Kennedy claimed to be able to read 1,200 words per minute — a sk...