More About Mobiles

[John the Monkey]

http://www.livescience.com/culture/091019-cell-phone-clown.html

"If [cell-phone use] disrupts something as simple as walking, which I'm assuming most of these people have been doing a long time and are pretty proficient at generally, we know it's going to be a really difficult task driving," Hyman said.

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

http://www.livescience.com/culture/091019-cell-phone-clown.html

I only quickly skimmed the article, but it what I read didn't surprise me.

I also spotted something in the New Scientist a few months ago which was worrying: in an attempt to reduce incidents of people walking into things whilst using* a phone, one of the phone makers was going to route the signal from the camera lens onto the screen as a background so whatever SMS you were reading was superimposed over it. So you could see what was in front of you.

Which struck me as a bit back to front: if it's such a problem, shouldn't people just not do it, rather than have it made "easier" for them> The article did say something about it not being suitable for use in a car, but ...

I don't think it was 1 April or the list of Ignoble Prize winners or anything like that.

* presumably they meant for reading texts or whatever, and not making calls.