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Brits Drop 885,000 Phones in Toilets Yearly
If there's one thing the British know less about caring for than their teeth, it's their cell phones. A recent study by SimplySwitch.com, a U.K.-based comparison site for mobile plans, found that out of the 4.5 million cell phones Britons lose or damage each year, 885,000 meet a watery death by getting dropped in the toilet. That's £342 million, or roughly $679 million U.S. dollars, flushed down the drain each year.
Surprisingly, incidents such as leaving phones at the pub (810,000) or in a taxi (315,000) were much less common. Unsurprisingly, men were found to be clumsier than women, with 28 percent of male respondents admitting to breaking or losing their handsets compared to 26 percent of women.
And, given the whole sitting down on the toilet thing, it's a fair guess to assume that most, if not all of the phones ruined by toilet water (or worse) were done so at the hands of British men, not women.
From Cellular News
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Motion-Sensing Laptops on the Way
Dubbed the BT Balance System, the adapter contains what's known as an accelerometer – a motion-sensing chip used elsewhere to deploy airbags and to detect if Apple laptops are being dropped. The accelerometer measures motion, tilt and rotation, then uses software to translate movement into on-screen actions, such as moving the cursor, opening folders and flipping pages of a virtual book. In fact, books were the system's inspiration.
"We wanted to create an interface that was simple and intuitive," says British Telecom's Adam Oliver in the company press release. "Standard ways of controlling PC applications can be too complicated, so we decided to use the analogy of a book to work with. What we ended up with gives you the same look and feel of picking up a book and reading it but in a 3-D digital format."
Oliver goes onto say that the technology will hopefully one day help the elderly, who sometimes struggle with the keyboard and mouse. Just like her awesome telephone with the giant numbers, this once again proves that Grandma gets all the coolest toys.
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