{"id":646339,"date":"2013-03-12T08:45:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T12:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=368591"},"modified":"2013-03-12T08:45:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T12:45:06","slug":"gravity-based-link-technology-could-make-it-easier-than-ever-to-buy-things-from-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646339","title":{"rendered":"Gravity-based link technology could make it easier than ever to buy things from Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/12\/amazon-gravity-based-links-patent-368591\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/amazon-sign-box.jpg?w=650&amp;h=434&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Amazon Gravity-based Links\" title=\"Amazon\" \/><\/a><\/center>The ease with which consumers can purchase just about anything on <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/amazon\">Amazon&#8217;s<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=AMZN\">AMZN<\/a>) website has helped the company change the face of retail. In the future, spending money on Amazon&#8217;s website could get even easier thanks to technology revealed in a patent the company was awarded late last month. Amazon&#8217;s &#8220;Gravity-based link assist&#8221; technology would <em>help<\/em> users by drawing pointers toward a link or button using a virtual\u00a0gravitational\u00a0field, thus reducing the frustration of misclicks and missed taps. While the patent has some clear potential in terms of accessibility, the technology has the <em>added benefit<\/em> of helping users click links that lead to products available for purchase from Amazon.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/3f0Khx_DDEk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ease with which consumers can purchase just about anything on Amazon&#8217;s (AMZN) website has helped the company change the face of retail. In the future, spending money on Amazon&#8217;s website could get even easier thanks to technology revealed in a patent the company was awarded late last month. Amazon&#8217;s &#8220;Gravity-based link assist&#8221; technology would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}