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Smartphone addiction forces Dutch town to add traffic lights to sidewalks

02/21/201702/17/2017 Stephanie Beck

A town called Bodegraven in the Netherlands has been adding the lights to pedestrian crossings. The problem with smartphone addiction has become great enough that a Dutch town has added traffic lights in the pavement at pedestrian crossings. The goal is to help to stop people from walking out into active lanes of traffic when they fail to look up from their mobile devices. The people of the town have been cautioned about looking where they are going but the problem persisted. As the smartphone addiction continues, the town decided…

Canada’s use of mobile technology is growing quickly

10/30/201510/28/2015 Julie Campbell

The country’s regulator has shown that a rising number of Canadians own smartphones and are using them more. According to mobile technology figures that have recently been released by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), two out of every three people in that country now own a smartphone and about half of the people of Canada have a tablet computer. The CRTC’s report showed that Canadians are rapidly taking on some of the latest in consumer computing devices. The three part report focused on the Canadian telecom industry as…

Checking mobile technology too often is leading to “cognitive failures”

08/19/201508/17/2015 Julie Campbell

This same problem has been measured among people who are considered to be high-frequency internet users. According to the results of a new study, people who constantly use their mobile technology to check texts, emails, or use the internet, are developing cognitive failures that are making it difficult for them to pay attention to what is going on in the real world environment. Everywhere we go, from commuter trains to waiting rooms, store lineups, and restaurants – people stare at smartphones. There are certain activities that are inherently boring to…

Mobile technology use could potentially lead to arthritis

07/06/201507/04/2015 Jennifer Goula

Doctors are starting to notice that heavy device users are stressing their hands and wrists at early ages. The heavy use of mobile technology is starting to generate a trend in injuries to fingers, thumbs, wrists, and other parts of the hand and related areas, such as in joints, tendons, ligaments, and other issues. Patients are reporting pain in their thumbs, fingers, and wrists at an increasing rate, particularly among device users. Conditions such as torn tendons in thumbs following prolonged use of mobile technology are popping up in doctors’…

Mobile technology to be removed from U.K. inmates

01/08/201501/07/2015 Stephanie Beck

The goal is to stop cell phones behind bars from playing a role in organizing drug deals and even murders. Prisoners in the U.K. will no longer be allowed to use their mobile technology while behind bars, as these devices could be used by criminals to be able to continue to run illegal activities both inside the jail and outside, from within their cells. Cell phones that belong to criminals in jail across the country will soon have their numbers disconnected. Prisons will also be utilizing new and inexpensive technology…