Buffalo Boy's Blog
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Whats The Big Deal?
The new 3G iPhone is being compared to sex. They ask the question in the article whether or not it is better than food and sex amongst other things.
Frankly, I don't see the big deal. Its a friggin phone. My cell phone is perfect, it rings, it dials numbers when I need it too and I talk to people on it. I don't need a fancy cell phone that stores more than my computer and I don't need one that plays music or games.
I have my IPod for music and thats enough. I don't need anymore than that. Cell phones have gone way overboard and to me they get so many features that they border on annoying. Some people get going with crap on their phones to the point where you want to tear it out of their hand and throw it into a friggin toilet.
Our society has become so ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and cell phones have contributed significantly to that characteristic of us. With all this information at our finger tips we get distracted easily from the real time. Sometimes to the point where it borders on just flat rudeness.
Throw in the trouble that kids are getting into using cell phones these days and you have yourself something that is over priced and over ratted. Its a luxury to have one of these and nothing more. Does anyone ever buy one of these things and use every single feature? My guess is no.
Maybe its just me but I don't need anymore than what I have, the iPhone can stay right where it is, locked up on a shelf at the Apple Store.
Moms-to-be who use cell phones during their pregnancies may seriously damage their babies, says new research from a scientist who previously believed that cell phones had no adverse effect on unborn children.
A study by UCLA Professor Leeka Kheifets found that pregnant moms who regularly used cell phones were much more likely to have a child who had emotional problems and hyperactivity by the time they reached school age. Previously, Kheifets had been skeptical of links between cell phones and behavior disorders and had written there was no proof of “any adverse health effect.”
Researchers at UCLA, along with Danish colleagues at the university in Aarhus, studied the moms of over 13,000 children born in Denmark in the late 1990s, including their use of cell phones during pregnancy and their children’s cell phone use. Children whose moms used cell phones as few as two or three times a day were 54 percent more likely to develop behavioral problems. And children who used mobile phones themselves before the age of seven increased their risk by 80 percent.
The study follows close on the heels of a Russian study which found that using cell phones while pregnant is “not much lower than the risk to children’s health from tobacco or alcohol.”