When Tikker introduced a watch that counts down your life this week, Mashable readers responded with a mixture of anxiety and a desire to carpe diem.
News of the Human Brain Project, a research effort to engineer a computer that mimics our brain's behavior, produced similarly mixed reactions. The project's intended output would be a scientific feat, but many readers weren't ready to see the line between human and computer made so thin.
In other news: Yahoo Mail's makeover impressed some readers, while others were quick to note how similar the upgrade's appearance was to that of Gmail.
Regardless of their email preferences, many users found themselves evaluating their daily habits based on data detailing how much time the average person spends in front of a screen every day.
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