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You want surprise and delight? One of the features in the 3.0 upgrade to the iPhone's operating system is called Find My iPhone. Say you're married to someone who loses her phone. And let's say she'd had the phone for only two weeks when this happened...
As ergonomics specialists know, using a computer can be a real pain - in the neck, wrists, back, eyes, shoulders, etc. But it also leads to injuries that experts may not have considered, such as trips and falls over the printer cord, lacerations from the sharp corners of a CPU or...
Accidents like these happen more often than you think. According to a study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine - the first to tally acute computer-caused injuries like cuts and bruises - 9,300 Americans suffer such mishaps each year. Based on data from some...
In part, the high rate of injury reflects the sheer increase in household computer ownership, which jumped 309% over the same period. But computer exposure and injuries hardly rose in lockstep: injuries far outpaced ownership, growing 732% from 1994 to 2006.
The study showed that the majority of computer-related injuries - 93% - happened at home. In all age groups, the most frequently diagnosed injury was laceration, making up 39% of cases. For adults, the leading cause of injury was hitting or getting caught on a part of a computer (37% of...