Your smartphone use predicts your social life, travel, risk of disease - even political views

The Really Smart Phone: Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from cellphone data, uncovering the hidden patterns of social lives, travels, risk of disease - even political views.

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Distracted Walking Featured in the New Windows Phone Ads

Distracted driving has gained much attention lately because of the inflated crash risk posed by drivers using cellphones to talk and text. But phones aren't just distracting drivers; they make pedestrians inattentive too.

Distracted walking combines a pedestrian, an electronic device and an unseen crack in the sidewalk, the pole of a stop sign, a toy left on the living room floor or a parked (or sometimes moving) car.

There are plenty of examples of the dangers of distracted walking in the two videos embedded in this page. These are also examples of "distracted life" in general:



References:
Forget Gum. Walking and Using Phone Is Risky. NYTimes.
Video: Stop texting while driving. Terrifying. All drivers should watch this.

Distracted Walking: Using a Cell Phone and Walking Is Risky

From the NYTimes:

"Distracted driving has gained much attention lately because of the inflated crash risk posed by drivers using cellphones to talk and text.

But phones aren't just distracting drivers; they make pedestrians inattentive too.

Distracted walking combines a pedestrian, an electronic device and an unseen crack in the sidewalk, the pole of a stop sign, a toy left on the living room floor or a parked (or sometimes moving) car.

Examples include a 16-year-old boy who walked into a telephone pole while texting and suffered a concussion; a 28-year-old man who tripped and fractured a finger on the hand gripping his cellphone; and a 68-year-old man who fell off the porch while talking on a cellphone, spraining a thumb and an ankle and causing dizziness."





References:
Forget Gum. Walking and Using Phone Is Risky. NYTimes.
Video: Stop texting while driving. Terrifying. All drivers should watch this.

Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

AT&T Don't Text While Driving Documentary (video).

A Physician with a Smartphone: Endless Possibilities for Patient Care Improvement

"In this video, Ivor Ković, a physician from Croatia, talks about how he uses the iPhone in his daily medical practice. He shows how even simple technology (starting with SMS) changes work behavior of physicians and patients. He goes on to showcase some of the apps he uses and introduces us to "Little Anne". But the most interesting part of the video is possibly where Ivor shows his own innovation on how the iPhone can be used to deliver quality CPR."

There are several health-related talks from Mobile Monday Amsterdam 2010 available on YouTube at http://bit.ly/c0bMF0

Best websites for Kindle (mobile) - please add more

This is a list of some of the best websites for Kindle (mobile) - please add more to the wiki at Google Docs - it is open to anybody to edit http://j.mp/kindle33

Best Websites for Kindle - mobile
(please add more below)

NYTimes
http://m.nytimes.com

WSJ
http://m.wsj.com

USA Today
http://m.usatoday.com

CNN
http://m.cnn.com

FT
http://m.ft.com

Reuters
http://m.reuters.com

Google Mobilizer (makes websites mobile-friendly)
http://google.com/gwt/n

Gmail
http://m.gmail.com

Skweezer (makes websites mobile-friendly)
http://skweezer.com

TIME
http://mobile.time.com

Twitter
http://m.twitter.com


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Image source: Amazon.com.