Do smart phones and GPS navigators make our brains lazy?

[Rubaida Easmin]

Navigation apps like Google’s Waze reduce the amount of mental power it takes to get from one place to another—and researchers can now literally see the difference in brain activity. A recent study is helping scientists get a better grasp of just how our brain function changes when navigating from memory versus following turn-by-turn directions.

http://www.popsci.com/navigating-with-gps-is-making-our-brains-lazy

[Fahad Zamal]

In some extent it do. But it makes our life more easy.