Madison Park of CNN reports: (CNN) — If your pinkie and ring fingers tingle or feel numb, you might not want to pick up that cell phone to call the doctor. Orthopedic specialists are reporting cases of “cell phone elbow,” in which patients damage an essential nerve in their arm by bending their elbows too [...]
Ryan Tate of Valleywag reports: James Coleman of Bristol, England became the “laughing stock of the office” after he got a black eye while using Twitter on the go… In Coleman’s case, reality literally smacked him upside the head. He was jogging to work and tweeting on his BlackBerry when he cracked his skull against [...]
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The Nielsen Wire reports: Currently, more than 60 percent of U.S. Twitter users fail to return the following month, or in other words, Twitter’s audience retention rate, or the percentage of a given month’s users who come back the following month, is currently about 40 percent. For hi-tech communication, I recommend a good, old fashioned [...]
Michael Kahn of Reuters reports: Gamers beware: Keeping too tight a grip on the console and furiously pushing the buttons can cause a newly identified skin disorder marked by painful lumps on the palms, Swiss scientists said on Tuesday. This is another reason to discourage and avoid addictive video game behavior. It is nice to [...]