Slipped out of his hand. Dropped off table. sunk in toilet. Too lame. Too old. Too ugly. The life of a smartphone is mostly short – and quite hard: because even though y are piloting us through foreign cities, remembering appointments and securing social contacts, we often rabidly with little helpers. If a phone is destroyed, next one comes. Annoying, such an accident, but just happened! After that, cycle starts from beginning: we destroy, we throw away, we forget.
But who believes that smartphones of this world would simply accept this, is mistaken. They have long since begun to strike back. Seldom though, but if, n vehemently. The following four – admittedly extreme – cases show what digital gnomes are capable of:
1. The smartphone is disoriented.Running and staring at display – not unusual in big cities. We jostle through streets, but at least we didn't miss latest Instastory. But care: as we stumble through world, smartphones secretly change our gait. Studies suggest that people who use a smartphone and rise above obstacles will fluctuate more and raise ir feet more from ground. (XIV International Symposium on 3d Analysis of human movement: Chen et al., 2016). So you teeter. How perfidious!
Smartphones also make a disorientation. New York physiorapists have shown that Smartphonenutzer are running slower, more sideways from road, and less remembering how y got to finish line (Gait Posture: Lamberg Muratori, 2012).
But not enough: if smartphone thinks a particularly inattentive user, it even lures it into street – with bad consequences: Studies in USA show that number of accidents of smartphonenutzenden pedestrians is steadily increasing. Fortunately, such brutal attacks on human health have so far been exception.
Advice-less on your mobile phone constantly new messages that captivate you to your smartphone: you can change your behaviour – this helps you with tips from this video. © Photo: Carim Soliman 2. The smartphone hurts eyes.Some vengeful smartphones prefer to strike at home rar than in public. As doctors in renowned medical Journal New England Journal of Medicine describe, y have it on ir eyes (Alim-Marvasti et al., 2016). Two women temporarily blinded smartphone after having lain for quite a while typing and wiping on side. The smartphone blindness, as doctors baptized newly discovered disease picture, y explained: In side position, lower eye was covered by pillows and duvets, only upper one exposed to glaring display. Thus, in retina visual pigments were consumed, a typical process in adaptation to bright light. After getting up, only eye that was concealed from pillow was adapted to darkness, and or women perceived it as temporarily blind.