[In other news] Texting and walking can lead to death: Study Finds Humans Incapable Of Maintaining A Straight Line While Walking a new study reveals. The study, conducted by the University of Queensland researchers, conclusively proved what some of us already knew: texting and walking kills.The researchers recorded their data using motion-capture technology, and claim that their groundbreaking findings will save lives, the Wall Street Journal reported. While analyzing their data, the researchers first discovered that walking and texting negatively affects your posture. This disturbed them, but what they found out next alarmed them: texting and walking can, and probably will, kill you. Texting could potentially be a problem in high risk environments, like walking near traffic or train tracks, where people think they are walking in a straight line but are actually wandering in a different direction, one of the researchers said to Today Health. Most texting and walking deaths occur in Subway stations, busy intersections, or rooftops. Texters simply forget where they are going and stumble onto train tracks, step into streets and fall off rooftops. Then there was the tourist from Taiwan walked off a pier near Melbourne last month while checking Facebook-bringing an abrupt, and icy, end to a penguin-watching visit, the Wall Street Journalreported. The video-sharing website YouTube is a trove of people too wrapped up in their phones to notice obstacles-like the fountain one U.S. shopping-mall visitor walked straight into. It should be noted that with todays technology, it is actually possible to watch other peoples texting accidents while you are walking and texting.Cities around the globe are responding to the walking and texting epidemic. Signs on the Hong Kong subway system warn passengers in three languages to keep their eyes off their phones. Realizing that some people were simply unable to contain their texting addiction, Android now offers handsets that automatically lock your phone when you begin walking.The police force may soon step in as well. New York is considering implementing tickets for anyone caught jaxting (walking and texting). designntrend/articles/10416/20140124/texting-walking-lead-death-study-finds-humans-incapable-maintaining-straight-line-texting.htm
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 03:15:43 +0000
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