http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Will gamers want One? After four years of development, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One entertainment console and touted it as an all-in-one solution for playing games, watching TV and doing everything in between. Microsoft wants the Xbox One to be central to your living room and packed the new Xbox with such features as the ability to change TV channels through voice commands. http://phys.org/news288420960.html Electronics Wed, 22 May 2013 05:56:08 EST news288420960 American television viewers are increasingly finding that one screen won't do: almost all have a second-screen device and 87 percent use it while watching shows, a survey said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news284729755.html Technology Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:36:02 EST news284729755 Every Tuesday, the Nielsen company publishes a popularity ranking of broadcast television programs that has served as the industry's report card dating back to when most people had only three networks to choose from. http://phys.org/news281007985.html Technology Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:00:01 EST news281007985 The amount of data used by mobile devices doubled over the past year, boosted by growth in video streaming services, according to a study released on Wednesday by Swedish telecom group Ericsson. http://phys.org/news272711093.html Technology Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:05:07 EST news272711093 It gave us the Walkman, the pocket calculator and heated toilet seats, but Japan's path to innovative greatness is littered with failures such as the TV-shaped radio and the "walking" toaster. http://phys.org/news271833892.html Technology Sun, 11 Nov 2012 05:50:02 EST news271833892 I've been conditioned just like any other consumer to expect certain things from certain companies. When it comes to tablets, I expect Apple's to look and feel amazing, Google's to seamlessly blend online services such as Gmail and search, and Amazon's to have easy access to its online store. http://phys.org/news271090177.html Electronics Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:10:01 EST news271090177 People do about as much while driving their cars as they do while sitting in their living rooms – eating, reading, talking on the phone. Some of these activities qualify as risky behavior. Dial your phone while watching TV and you may miss a weather alert. Dial while driving and you may crash. http://phys.org/news267432932.html Technology Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:55:51 EST news267432932 Netflix on Monday announced that one million people in Britain and Ireland signed up for the film and TV show streaming Internet service in the seven months after its debut there. http://phys.org/news264700277.html Technology Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:51:24 EST news264700277 (AP) -- Viacom Inc., the parent of pay TV networks MTV and Comedy Central, has settled a dispute with Time Warner Cable Inc. over whether its subscribers can watch shows like "Jersey Shore" on mobile devices while at home. http://phys.org/news256448030.html Technology Thu, 17 May 2012 04:34:05 EST news256448030 (AP) -- ABC and Yahoo will experiment on the season's last two episodes of "Revenge" with a smartphone and tablet application designed to encourage more people to watch television live. http://phys.org/news255805132.html Technology Wed, 09 May 2012 17:58:59 EST news255805132 Soon, the living room TV will become as hyper-connected as the people watching it. http://phys.org/news251717852.html Electronics Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:50:01 EST news251717852 (AP) -- YouTube is enlisting Hollywood's help to reach a generation of viewers more familiar with smartphones than TV remotes. http://phys.org/news248961652.html Technology Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:01:02 EST news248961652 Forget the small screen and the big screen. The hottest new thing in television is the "second screen" - the one on the tablet computer or cell phone that an increasing number of viewers keep an eye on while they're watching TV. And figuring out how to corral all those second-screeners and make money off them was the hottest topic at a recent convention of 5,000 television executives in Miami Beach. http://phys.org/news247493501.html Technology Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:20:01 EST news247493501 (AP) -- Call it the "second-screen" Super Bowl. About two-thirds of smartphone and tablet owners use their gadgets to do things like text or post on Twitter while watching TV, according to research firm Nielsen. So, for Sunday's game, companies from Coke to Chevy are trying to reach fans on all the "second screens" they have. http://phys.org/news247305326.html Technology Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:20:03 EST news247305326 (AP) -- Want to earn stuff by watching TV? An app for that is set to make its debut. http://phys.org/news246701808.html Technology Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:16:57 EST news246701808 Yahoo! on Wednesday launched a news magazine tailored for iPads as it put a happy, mobile gadget-focused face on a faded Internet star considered ripe to be bought. http://phys.org/news239518173.html Technology Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:49:40 EST news239518173 (AP) -- Comcast subscribers: In the future, believing that the TV is talking to you might not be a sign of insanity. You may be getting a Skype video call. http://phys.org/news227246329.html Electronics Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:59:14 EST news227246329 Most people are comfortable enough with the idea of watching TV, but how comfortable will they be with the idea of the TV watching them back? http://phys.org/news226155172.html Technology Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:53:04 EST news226155172 YouTube is beefing up its roster of movies for "rent" online in the United States to woo viewers away from television and take on booming Internet service Netflix. http://phys.org/news224176019.html Technology Mon, 09 May 2011 16:07:13 EST news224176019 Spending too much leisure time in front of a TV or computer screen appears to dramatically increase the risk for heart disease and premature death from any cause, perhaps regardless of how much exercise one gets, according to a new study published in the January 18, 2011, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Data show that compared to people who spend less than two hours each day on screen-based entertainment like watching TV, using the computer or playing video games, those who devote more than four hours to these activities are more than twice as likely to have a major cardiac event that involves hospitalization, death or both. http://phys.org/news213899253.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:27:42 EST news213899253 (AP) -- Let's face it: Teenagers spend hours texting, socializing on Facebook and playing video games. And it's driving their parents nuts. http://phys.org/news207481232.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:20:09 EST news207481232 (PhysOrg.com) -- Children who spend longer than two hours in front of a computer or television screen are more likely to suffer psychological difficulties, regardless of how physically active they are. http://phys.org/news205989875.html Medicine & Health Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:25:05 EST news205989875 A new study conducted by a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher, together with a researcher from De-Paul University, reveals that women in the United States generally derive more happiness from religious participation than from shopping on Sundays. http://phys.org/news202468459.html Medicine & Health Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:40:01 EST news202468459 In an age of information overload, a team of European researchers are developing technology to solve the “crisis of choice” people face when surfing the web, shopping for products online or watching TV. http://phys.org/news198146206.html Technology Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:10:01 EST news198146206 We usually scold our children and teenagers for watching too much TV. It turns out that their grandmas and grandpas spend even more of their time watching TV, and it is not good for them either, according to researchers at the Stein Institute for Research on Aging and Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. http://phys.org/news197007107.html Medicine & Health Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:12:07 EST news197007107 Humans are not the only primates that enjoy watching TV -- this was the discovery of a research team that monitored a monkey's brain activity while it watched TV and confirmed the animal was enjoying itself. http://phys.org/news196089934.html Biology Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:50:01 EST news196089934 (AP) -- The amount of time people spend on the computer while watching TV is going up sharply. http://phys.org/news188485576.html Technology Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:06:30 EST news188485576 The 2010 Sleep in America poll released today by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) reveals significant differences in the sleep habits and attitudes of Asians, Blacks/African-Americans, Hispanics and Whites. It is the first poll to examine sleep among these four ethnic groups. http://phys.org/news187188146.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:04 EST news187188146 Young children of Hispanic mothers whose dominant language is Spanish spend less time in front of the TV than children whose mothers speak mostly English, according to research led by investigators at Johns Hopkins Children's Center and published in the February issue of Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine. http://phys.org/news184267388.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:23:47 EST news184267388 In a new study, the amount of television viewed by many young children in child care settings doubles the previous estimates of early childhood screen time, with those in home-based settings watching significantly more on average than those in center-based daycares. This study is the first to examine screen time in child care settings in more than 20 years. http://phys.org/news178178418.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:00:49 EST news178178418