SMS could be dangerous - New Zealand woman diagnosed with “text thumb disease”
Posted by Dusan on Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 at 1:00 pm under General
A New Zealand student has been diagnosed with the country’s first known case of text-messager’s thumb. And before you go “WFT?”, you should know the 20-year-old girl is sending up to 100 text messages a day!
The sad thing is that this isn’t the first such case in the world. Rather it’s the third, a school-aged child in Singapore and a 13 year-old girl in Australia were also diagnosed with what is called the “texting tenosynovitis”…
[Via: textually.org]
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