Multitask? Then This Might be for You...

[N2NH]

It’s 1 p.m. on a Thursday and Dianne Bates, 40, juggles three screens. She listens to a few songs on her iPod, then taps out a quick e-mail on her iPhone and turns her attention to the high-definition television.

Just another day at the gym.

As Ms. Bates multitasks, she is also churning her legs in fast loops on an elliptical machine in a downtown fitness center. She is in good company. In gyms and elsewhere, people use phones and other electronic devices to get work done — and as a reliable antidote to boredom.

Cellphones, which in the last few years have become full-fledged computers with high-speed Internet connections, let people relieve the tedium of exercising, the grocery store line, stoplights or lulls in the dinner conversation.

The technology makes the tiniest windows of time entertaining, and potentially productive. But scientists point to an unanticipated side effect: when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas.

Ms. Bates, for example, might be clearer-headed if she went for a run outside, away from her devices, research suggests.

Multitasking or Using Digital Devices All of the time is bad for you according to new research... (LINK) (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/technology/25brain.html?src=me&ref=general)

[kc7jty]

poor Ms Bates, sucked into modernity, then subjected to an ever changing barrage of opinions supplied by highly qualified experts who don't know the difference between their @ssole and a hole in the ground.
Please don't hit me Ms Bates when your driving and multitasking.

[KG4CGC]

used to be that eggs were bad for you because of cholesterol. Little did they know ....

[kc7jty]

the experts know everything

[N2NH]

I have no problem with more women getting on the road with their bikes....

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UN6sKG4l3vE/SiK6i6oWjGI/AAAAAAAAACA/Cu3eLpjcffM/s320/queen-bicycle-race-fat-bottomed-girls.jpg

[n2ize]

I know multitasking is popular but, I don't want it. I like to get away from technology. I don;t want an electronic device and a high speed Internet connection every place I go. I like to be able to turn off the computer, get up, and go outdoors and be free from technology now and then. I don;t understand this fast paced world where everyone has to be on the phone constantly, has to be constantly texting, tweeting, and other assorted rubbish. What happened to the old fashioned idea of taking a walk and looking around at the sky, the water, listening to the birds and the wind in the trees, enjoying the fresh aire, etc.. ?

[N7RJD]

I multitask. I can walk and trip over my own two feet at the same time.

[KA5PIU]

Hello.

Some have taken to mounting a TV set on the dashboard of their car.
This was in the late 1970's when the lady whacked my truck.
Another guy was changing 8-track tapes when my boss was hit, had the player on the floor hump of a company car, perhaps one reason why that type of mount became unpopular, that and front wheel drive.
One gent on a bulldozer ran over an elderly man while changing a cassette on a bulldozer going in reverse.
But in Texas, get caught with an "Electronic display device" and you can be charged with distracted driving.
Drive with a cell phone in a school zone and you may get popped, and it is a moving violation.
However I see nothing at all wrong with this at places like a gym.

[n6hcm]

I know multitasking is popular but, I don't want it.

multitasking is for computers, not for people. i call bullshit on multitasking. i maintain that anyone who claims to multitask with serious tasks is not looking at what they're actually doing and what actually gets done over time.

[rot]

Doing one task well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H-2_Nr_XDM&feature=related
rot

[ad4mg]

Doing one task well.

Spastic speed juggling ... the new Olympic event! That guy is pretty good! :bowdown:

[rot]

Spastic speed juggling ... the new Olympic event! That guy is pretty good! :bowdown:
I've always been fascinated with that stuff and those who have mastered it.
I can do 3 billiard balls for about 10 slow cycles...Throw in some bowling pins and something/someone in proximity is gonna get broke.:lol:
rot

[NQ6U]

I've always been fascinated with that stuff and those who have mastered it.
I can do 3 billiard balls for about 10 slow cycles...Throw in some bowling pins and something/someone in proximity is gonna get broke.:lol:
rot

Yeah, I can do a passable three-ball cascade for a little while but every time I tried to learn to juggle clubs I ended up with a sprained finger (or two).

[KA5PIU]

Hello.

I am safe with beanbags, that is it!
Some people can do fantastic things that I have never been able to master.

[N7YA]

I dunno...multitasking isnt all that bad. I can play my Hockey GM mode on Xbox, light a pipe and play solitaire all at the same time while looking at porn.

Doesnt everyone do this?

[PA5COR]

Reading the board and drinking coffee is my extend of multitasking.

With some posts the drinking the coffee and reading results in a wet screen.... dang you funny guy's....STOP that...:lol: