Category: Gadgets

A recent study has shown that 1 in every 10 people check their smartphones the moment they wake up.

According to the results of a recent study, one person in ten will use a mobile technology device, such as a smartphone, as soon as they wake up in the morning, and nearly half of all people will check that device a minimum of 50 times per day.

The study involved the participation of 4,000 people and determined that many check mobile devices often.

Nearly half of the people in the Millennial generation will check their mobile technology within the first five minutes of being awake in the morning. Moreover, many people will also check their devices repeatedly throughout the day, at a minimum of 50 times, on average. The habit of checking devices by Millennials will also occur at night, as one in four will check their mobile devices while they’re in bed at night. As a whole, smartphone owners are estimated to check their devices 1.1 billion times per day.

Over one in three people will check their mobile technology devices 25 to 50 times per day.

Another 16 percent of people will check their devices over 50 times per day from the time they get up in the morning to when they go to bed at night (this did not include the off chance that someone might wake in the night and check a device).

The study, which was published in the Deloitte Mobile Consumer report, was held in the United Kingdom and was based on a survey of 4,000 people in a range of different age groups and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Beyond the tenth of all people who will check their devices within five minutes of waking, 53 percent of all mobile device owners will check their gadgets within the first 15 minutes of waking up in the morning.

It is currently estimated that 76 percent of all adults in the United Kingdom are smartphone mobile technology owners. This is an increase of 6 percent over what it had been in 2014. Every year, there are over 32 million of the devices purchased in that country, and another 6 million are estimated to be handed down each year.

The professors have already received $380,000 in funding to help them to accomplish their research.

Two professors from Wichita State University have now received $380,000 in funding in order to discover whether wearable technology is as safe as it needs to be for mainstream consumer use.

The idea is to determine if this latest mobile tech craze is revealing more about people than they know.

The use of wearable technology – such as smartwatches, wristbands, fitness trackers, smartglasses, and others – is starting to grow. It remains somewhat of a niche market, but it is definitely growing to the point that it has the potential to be the next multimillion dollar tech craze. That said, as has been the case with every other form of connected computing, there is a chance that cyber attacks could occur with these devices, and that they could end up revealing far more about the wearers than they realize.

Therefore, the two profs are now aiming to keep wearable technology ahead of wrong-doing hackers.

According to Murtuza Jadliwala, he and his team are “actually investigating the cyber security and privacy issues linked to wearable devices.” The funding for this project came in the form of a grant from the National Science Foundation. In this project, Jadliwala – who is a computer scientist and electrical engineer – and Jibo He, a psychologist and computer scientist, will work together with their team in order to find out if smartphone, smartwatch, and fitness tracker sensors are revealing too much information about their users.

Jadliwala stated that “What we are trying to study is, data available from these devices, what kind of additional private information can be inferred from this data?” These professors aren’t trying to look at whether or not hackers will be able to break into a device to steal personal information. Instead, what they are trying to determine is how accessible the sensors on wearables are to others, when they are meant to be tracking the wearer’s health information, location, and even the keystrokes entered when typing a search, login, or password.

They also want to see if the motion sensors inside wearable technology can reveal what is being typed into a smartphone. According to He, this is “So we’ll know who you dialed to or we’ll know what’s your password of your email or how to unlock your smart phone.”