Tag: DANGEROUS

Road SMS' is an Android app from the Samsung App Store, and we hate hate HATE it. It ingeniously encourages the silly, rude and sometimes lethal practice of texting-while-walking. 'Road SMS' purports to be some kind of safe alternative because it uses your phone's camera as a video background while you're tapping away at that text that is so damn important that you can't stop walking. Oh, ...

Share Microwaves! According to statistics, almost all of us has one. In fact, Americans used their microwaves to cook 47 billion meals last year, which is roughly 1.1 meals-per-household every day. Next to televisions, computers and cell phones, microwave ovens may be one of the most often-used devices in the country -- and they don't even connect to Twitter (although this one has YouTube). ...

By now, you should know that every technological advancement comes with a major downside. The assembly line brought cheap motorized transport to the masses, but pumped countless tons of atmosphere-destroying pollutants into the sky. While lithium-ion batteries gave our cell phones and laptops the ability to last all day, they have an unsettling tendency to burst into flames when you least expect ...

While you're totally in your rights to keep frettin' over brain tumors, it looks like your eyes are safe from the cell phone cancer -- at least until another study is released. According to a paper published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, a German study involving roughly 1,600 people has found no conclusive link between cell phone use and uveal melanoma. This contradicts an ...

We're not even going to pretend we fully grasp what's going on here, but the long and short of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences' latest findings are that cell phones can trigger the release of mercury from one's fillings. Yes, seriously. The study asserts that out of 14 test subjects with fillings, those who used mobile phones had a statistically significant increase of mercury from urine ...

Details on this one are remarkably skimpy, but here are the facts as we know them. A fire caused around $30,000 worth of damage to a mobile home in Delaware this past week, but thankfully, the Millsboro and Indian River firefighters found no one home at the time of the incident. The culprit? A "malfunctioning cellphone charger that ignited the wall covering in a bedroom." That's it, folks -- no ...

Depending on whom you believe, climbing cell phone towers may be the most dangerous job in America. According to a recent article in industry trad mag RCR Wireless, and the head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, workers who spend their days scaling cell phone towers die at much higher rates than most other laborers. Even 'Dateline' has picked up on the claim and is preparing ...