[bootlegga]

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Users of smartphones and tablet computers are starting to get high-tech blues, as increasing numbers of the tech savvy are coming down with ailments from "text neck" to "text thumb injury".

Health experts in Britain have warned that strain injuries stemming from long periods spent staring at small screens and tapping at tiny keys can be debilitating. And such injuries are becoming more common as high-tech gadgets grow ever more popular.

Increasing numbers of Britons use their smartphones for accessing the Internet rather than making phone calls.

According to a recent YouGov poll of over 2,000 people, 44 percent of Britons use their mobile phone for activities other than making calls, for between 30 minutes and two hours a day.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/smartphone-add ... 54368.html

[Bruce_E_T]

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In an ideal posture, where a vertical line can be drawn from your ear through your shoulder, hip, knee and ankle, "the weight is carried efficiently", he noted..

But if the head is constantly held forward to squint at a screen, then the unusual posture makes the head feel up to four times heavier, increasing strain across the whole body, he explained

This does not look good over the long haul. The texting "Praying Mantis" position is stressful well beyond the hands and fingers.

[Freakinoldguy]

Technology. Isn't it grand.

I just find it baffling that people'd buy a 500 buck 7" tablet and then go out and spend another couple of hundred dollars to turn it into an undepowered poor imitation of a laptop computer.

Maybe that Zager and Evans song is getting closer to the truth than we'd like to admit, especially the part about the arms and the legs

[1Peg]

"Increasing numbers of Britons use their smartphones for accessing the Internet rather than making phone calls."

Well duh lol