It seems that we of the geeky persuasion are doomed. Doomed, I say! If it’s not radiation us cancer (or not giving us… Whatever…), it seems that our smartphones are now debilitating us thanks to their convenience and small screens. A report on Stuff.co.nz tells us that our mobile devices are causing “high tech blues” as we use them more and more.
In particular, our fingers and shoulders are suffering, with doctors in the UK giving conditions awesome names like “text neck” and “text thumb injury” from repetitive use of mobile devices. One person quoted laments that the human body “is not designed to be used like this”.
So, is it time to panic? Or should we, the geeks of the world, simply exercise caution while using our mobile devices? Or is it all just a media beatup? Personally, I’m opting for options B and C, with maybe a touch of A thrown in for fun…
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Josh
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:29 AMI wouldn’t worry about it. Humans also weren’t supposed to live too far from the equator but we dealt with that in time.
Jack
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 12:23 PMmy fingers ache from clicking so much, and scrolling for about 5 years straight almost daily for hours.
Ozoneocean
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 1:02 PMThat must have been the biggest web page ever o_O
Ghazarios
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 5:42 PMHahahaha ^
Jess
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:31 PMHahahaha, awesome :)
Jack
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 4:38 AMHaha, good one :)
Matt L
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 10:42 AMGenius! haha
Grim
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 1:41 PMSo this is just another form of RSI then? I’m sure there are (or will be) treatments available. Or bionic thumb replacements soon enough! Perhaps they can build a USB drive or bluetooth speaker/mic into them too.
Aaron
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 1:14 AMSurely Siri is the answer to some of this? :P