Some things might have been better off not being invented. Now we're not denying that these come with some good ... convenience, connectedness, etc. We're just saying... sometimes the bad seems to outweigh the good.
At the risk of stating the obvious, raising teenagers isn’t an easy job. The teenage years are characterized by a considerable amount of screaming, crying, whining, and countless threats of running away from home. And it isn’t only the parents who resort to these sophisticated methods of persuasion....
Finally Apple iPhone users will have the ability to send multimedia messages to each other, and to other cell phones. This is great news you would have thought they rolled this out much sooner but they haven't. Users of older first generation iPhones won't have this capability yet. MMS really...
The term “UMTS” is the abbreviated form for “Universal Mobile Telecommunications System.” This is a type of mobile phone technology, often classified as “third-generation” (or “3G” for short). Aside from “typical” phone features such as calls and voice mails, most 3G gadgets also allow users to...
Researchers blame cell phones for decline in bee populations. A group of scientists from the British Bee Association have noticed a sharp decline in bee populations in the United Kingdom. As of 2009, bee populations dropped by 17 percent in the United Kingdom and nearly 30 percent within...
A cell phone jammer is an instrument that produces a signal that is within the same frequency range that cell phones use. The competing signals will result in blocking off the transmission of the cell phone because of the interference. Any person who attempts to use a cell phone that is within the...
Sometimes it seems that truth is stranger than fiction. Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, was recently quoted on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" as favoring technology that would block cell phone calls from within automobiles. Specifically, LaHood was quoted as saying, “There’s a lot of technology...
Stress is one of the unhealthy epidemics of modern life. Modern people are overworked, overstimulated and over committed. In fact, some of the very things that help reduce stress (sleep) are made difficult (insomnia) by having too much stress. Fighting stress requires a multi-pronged approach....
Solar Cell Phones have finally made their way to the African Continent which has much less access to dependable electricity. The phones which will fully charge after just an hour of sunlight on a fresh battery, which needs to be charged for 24 hours on a standard AC plug. "Uganda Telecom has...
