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Living in the 21st-century means that one must simply have a cell-phone. Truth be told, how else are we going to efficiently keep tabs on each other and carry on with our daily activities? However, with about 5 billion such gadgets owned by the general public, it seems that quite a considerable amount of energy i... |
31 May 2012
09:45 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new investigation carried out by experts at the Yale School of Medicine, it would appear that mothers who expose themselves to radiations from cell phones during pregnancy are very likely to have children whose brain development is impaired.
In the March 15 issue of the Nature jou... |
19 March 2012
04:42 GMT |
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I recently came across an interesting study, suggesting that the way in which you hold your cell phone is indicative of which hemisphere of your brain dominates the other. The team behind the study mostly focused on what ears individuals held up their mobile devices to.
Upon reading this study, it became obvious to ... |
23 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new investigation, it would appear that people who use a lot of text messages are less likely to accept or interpret new words or phrases. The study that showed this correlation was carried out on college students.
Scientists at the University of Calgary say that the findings apply... |
21 February 2012
14:21 GMT |
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According to Dr. Anastasiya Pocheptsova and Dr. Rosellina Ferraro, two researchers at the University of Maryland, cell phones may promote the exact opposite of connecting people. Their latest study indicates that community involvement has decreased since cell phones have been widely introduced.
They add that people... |
17 February 2012
05:50 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Northeastern University and the University of Oxford says that mobile phone data are an abundant gold mine for extracting data on human reproductive strategies, as well as on their relationships and associated behaviors.
The team says that analyzing text message and call patterns can... |
2 February 2012
14:01 GMT |
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There is a limited number of wishes modern technology can't fulfill. Experts from New York city based-Ground Lab manufacture a hi-tech collar for lions and cattle in Kenya that will help biologists track the animals faster than ever before. This initiative comes as an effective way of putting an end to the num... |
23 November 2011
08:23 GMT |
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A new investigation by researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine shows that texting can be used as an effective tool for helping people kick the habit of smoking. Its efficiency was put to the test in a group of 5,800 participants, who were randomly assigned to either a control group or the txt2... |
1 July 2011
10:55 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that cell phone use has been directly linked to a decrease in fertility in men. Excessive exposure to this technology leads to low sperm quality, and also the inability to conceive children. As such, the research team behind this research suggest... |
20 May 2011
07:57 GMT |
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Most of us have been using a technology originally developed for space for many years, without even realizing it. One in three mobile phones on the market today features camera technologies that were originally developed to bring the most distant galaxies in the Universe into our lives.
The same cameras were used... |
19 January 2011
02:35 GMT |
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A team of engineers is awaiting final approvals from the United States government to begin selling a new type of highly-portable, ultrasounds generators, that can be connected directly to cell phones and other devices in Wi-Fi networks.The basis for the new handheld devices we set about two years ago, when computer e... |
29 November 2010
03:50 GMT |
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A team of experts from the MIT, including students, volunteers, and professors, has recently developed a new method of providing healthcare to millions of people in the Third World, and in the developed world. Their approach relies heavily on the 5 billion+ mobile-device subscribers that exist worldwide. A large part... |
27 September 2010
06:50 GMT |
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As most of you already know, overhearing conversations people carry on their mobile phones while in public places can be extremely annoying, and a new study show why.When two people have a conversation in the background, those overhearing it tend to get less annoyed because they unconsciously hear both the questions ... |
17 September 2010
03:53 GMT |
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A new set of researches seems to suggest that exposure to radiation emitted by cell phones may have a beneficial effect on memory. In the case of mice, the research group behind the new study says, it would even appear that exposure to this radiation generates a protective effect against Alzheimer's disease. In ... |
7 January 2010
06:59 GMT |
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Experts reveal that using your cell phone or wireless device inside the airplane will probably not bring it down, but it will land you in a confrontation with the other passengers and the flight attendants. Since 1991, the use of cell phones was banned in commercial airliners, but scientists reveal that there is litt... |
22 December 2009
03:53 GMT |
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A new tracking system that holds great promise in saving future avalanche victims has just been developed in Germany. The method, which was created by scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, will rely heavily on the future European satellite navigation system, Galileo. The team rep... |
2 December 2009
15:11 GMT |
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In spite of being an area where a huge number of studies has already been performed, the use of cell phones is still making scientists uneasy. The long-term threats on people's safety have not yet been fully and accurately assessed, experts say, therefore they cannot whole-heartedly sanction their use just yet. ... |
13 November 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Over the past few years, actual telephone calls or e-mail accounts have been rendered obsolete by the advent of the SMS (Short Message Service). This has been most visibly reflected in the preferences of young people today. Polls indicate that most people under the age of 21 now use messages to stay in touch, rather ... |
11 November 2009
19:31 GMT |
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Most people use the cameras on their cell phones to capture instant moments while out with their families, or to photograph fun times with their pets. But experts from the University of California, in Berkeley, have other plans with their mobile phones. Their newly developed technology, CellScope, allows for average ... |
22 July 2009
05:39 GMT |
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Salah, the official prayer of the Islam, must be practiced by each adept of the religion five times per day, in prostration to Allah. Regularly, the prayers are done at dawn, noon, afternoon, sunset and nightfall, and missing them is considered to be a sin. They are also compulsory to all those who have reached puber... |
6 April 2009
10:25 GMT |
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New scientific evidence comes to show that even teenagers themselves have nowadays problems with the most modern gadgets, despite their being the main target of advertising campaigns. While those in their late teen years and early adulthood can handle most devices producers “throw” at them, the most compl... |
26 March 2009
06:54 GMT |
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Although doctors and other health experts have yet to figure out exactly how harmful cell phones are to the human brain, one thing is for sure, their batteries are a real “death trap.” New studies show that the devices themselves carry numerous bacteria that can only live in that certain environment, but ... |
17 March 2009
10:47 GMT |
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have just recently set forth a bold, new idea, that of a battery made from materials that are so effective that they would recharge more than 100 times faster than the most advanced lithium-ion cells. In other words, they say, a battery that usually power... |
12 March 2009
07:06 GMT |
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Rutgers University researcher Peter D. Loeb, a professor of Economics, has recently authored two new studies detailing the influence of cell phones in the deaths of countless drivers and pedestrians over the past years. His studies span across a period of 27 years, from 1975 to 2002. He has analyzed several key facto... |
5 March 2009
06:54 GMT |
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A survey of the German cell phone and Internet industries has revealed a worrying fact: most German males in their twenties would rather ditch their girlfriends than part ways with their cell phones or Internet connections, investigators have recently announced. The young men would also renounce cars, if that would a... |
3 March 2009
09:37 GMT |
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Here we are in the age of interactions, the time of cell phones, computers, PDAs and social media. And the almighty Internet looms overhead, possible even through this post. Even though as a small boy I had a hard time understanding what all the fuss was about, and what this “Internet” everyone kept talki... |
20 February 2009
17:01 GMT |
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The popularity of cell phones has really taken off in the US since 2001, as SMS services have become readily available, and started to catch on to the general population. While at the time only 1 million messages were sent between mobile phones in America, now more than 75 billion are delivered every month in the cou... |
13 February 2009
06:00 GMT |
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The National Safety Council (NSC), a non-profit, non-governmental organization urged federal law makers yesterday to restrict or ban the use of cell phones inside vehicles, citing new studies that show the practice is as dangerous when the bottom line is drawn as driving under the influence. NSC also asked businesses... |
13 January 2009
02:38 GMT |
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