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A leading child psychologist believes new tests for dyslexia could help diagnose children from a much earlier age than before. Doctor Peter Gardner, Chartered Educational Psychologist and Founder Director of Appleford School in Shrewton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, says the tests could help children and their parents feel more comfortable about overcoming difficulties with reading…

Original post: Educational Psychologist Believes Children Should Be Tested For Dyslexia Earlier

A group of film studios, consumer electronics companies, software makers, and ISPs say they are offering consumers an easier way to store, view, and access content. Critics say it’s PlaysForSure all over again.

Original post: Will Hollywood’s ‘UltraViolet’ plan replace the DVD?

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, have identified a genetic variant which influences whether a person with dyslexia is more skilled with either the left or right hand. The finding identifies a novel gene for handedness and provides the first genetic evidence to support a much speculated link between handedness and a language-related disorder…

Original post: Gene Discovery Supports Link Between Handedness And Language-Related Disorders

System in Toulouse, France, uses sensors originally designed for planetary exploration to direct drivers to open parking spots.

Original post: Space tech helping French find parking spots? Oui!

Learning to read and write are complex processes, which can be disrupted in various ways, leading to disorders known as dyslexia and dysgraphia. Two new studies, published in a recent special issue of Elsevier’s Cortex (see link below) provide evidence of this variety, suggesting that effective treatment needs to take it into account…

Original post: Widening Our Perceptions Of Reading And Writing Difficulties

Maxwell Technologies will use the money to develop a long-lasting portable energy-storage device for soldiers to charge and manage electronics in the field.

Original post: DARPA awards $1.7M for ultracap energy storage

Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and solutions, has announced that it has enabled the text-to-speech option on all of its ePub book titles. The text-to-speech function enables an e-book to read aloud…

Original post: Elsevier Enables Its E-Books To Read Aloud, Increasing Access For People With Print Disabilities

iRobot’s updated Roomba and Scooba models are more powerful and compact. They also seem easier to maintain, which is a major plus.

Original post: New Roomba, Scooba models get to work

Pharmaceutical company, Merck & Co., Inc. has announced that it will acquire SmartCells, Inc., a private biotech developing a glucose-responsive insulin whose proof-of-concept preclinical trials were partially funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)…

Original post: Glucose-Responsive Insulin Advances Toward Clinical Development

The Consumer Electronics Show will include for the first time a Fitness TechZone, where the latest sports and fitness tools and innovations will be on display for those who might already need a resolution reminder.

Original post: Fitness TechZone to help keep resolutions alive