After all, reading through an assigned text quickly would be enormously helpful to all students, but if the reading becomes too passive and doesn’t allow for note-taking or reflection, it may not have the same impact on the reader. It will appear as an email reading app for Samsung’s upcoming Gear2 and S5.ĭoes this mean we’re all going to be riding Segways, wearing Google Glass, and reading whole Dostoevsky novels on lunch break? Well, maybe not, but it will be interesting to see if Spritz can develop tools to help keep comprehension up as speed improves, including ways to mark significant passages and pages. Spritz is raising millions of dollars in seed money, and its website indicates the company is in talks with a variety of partners, from digital publishers to wearable manufacturers. This could make students of Russian literature very happy. Users can adjust the speed, from 100 to 1,000 words per minute. Though that might sound horrible at first (and it is initially disconcerting), once you adjust to the idea, you start reading like a librarian on crank. So when you read using Spritz, you look at a small box on screen and words flash by one at a time. To do that, it lines the words up along what it calls a “optimal recognition point” and shows them to the reader one-by-one. Spritz uses technology to reduce the amount of time spent moving the eyes around reading. There’s also a talking mouse.īoston-based startup Spritz will make you feel like the newly-smart Charlie and it will also help you read Flowers for Algernon in a shockingly short period of time, and if the technology starts showing up on our devices, you may never have to revert back to your average human reading speed ever again. Then he loses the intelligence he gained and it’s really sad. In the despair-inducing young adult novel Flowers for Algernon, a man named Charlie with a low IQ receives an experimental treatment that makes him temporarily way smarter than he normally is. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for the content of external websites.This article originally appeared on The Daily Dot. Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their own created content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrant and indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, posts, comments and submissions available. Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for user created content, posts, comments, submissions or preferences.
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