WIDESPREAD AILMENTS CAUSED BY SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS

Take a look at this sobering article.  Sandy Chevel at the Daily Mail reports:  (HT: Drudge)

• Smartphone users check their phones 150 times a day on average

• Phone addicts are often easily distracted, suffer disrupted sleep, are tempted to lie about their phone use and can become depressed

• Overuse of a smartphone can lead to a phobia of being without it, texting while asleep, phantom vibration syndrome and cybersickness

• It can also lead to hand, eye and posture problems, say experts

 The article is definitely worth a quick read.