This ingenious app teaches you a new language in your spare seconds

Every day, there are countless seconds that slip by that could probably be put to better use.

A set of new apps from researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) looks to take advantage of those "micro-moments," giving lifehack junkies a new opportunity to wring every last bit of productivity out of their days to learn a new language.

WaitSuite is billed as an opportunistic micro-learning package — just imagine a more obtrusive version of Duolingo popping into your idle moments. The developers of the software call the method "wait-learning," which they described in a paper published in last month's edition of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.  Read more...