By Andy Brack, editor and publisher  |   That smartphone in your pocket may be neat and shiny, but it also may be making you dumber.

We love these mobile devices because they allow us to be connected instantly to business and personal emails, cute cat videos, music, the latest news, weather updates and a wealth of data.  There’s more computing power in a smartphone, it is said, than there was in the first rocket that took man to the moon.  Smartphones give us answers to questions we’ve got and connect us to long-lost friends through the power of social media.  They’re so packed with apps and cool things that we often forget they’re also phones.