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Phantom Vibrations or ringxiety
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:11:14 -0400
Happens to me djf Begin forwarded message: From: Eric Glover <eric () ericglover com> Date: October 14, 2007 3:39:29 AM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: FYI: Phantom Vibrations or ringxietyhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/10/11/phantom.vibrations.ap/ index.html?section=cnn_latest
NEW YORK (AP) -- If your hipbone is connected to your BlackBerry or your thighbone is connected to your cell phone, those vibrations you're feeling in the car, in your pajamas, in the shower, may be coming from your headbone. Many mobile phone addicts and BlackBerry junkies report feeling vibrations when there are none, or feeling as if they're wearing a cell phone when they're not. ... Jeff Posner, president and owner of e-ventsreg.com in New Jersey, which allows users to register and check in for trade shows and other events, stopped wearing his BlackBerry on his belt because of regular false alarms. He put it in the chest pocket of his shirt but found that was worse, because now his phone dials automatically, which has created a new annoyance: It always calls the same person, he said. "Phones have favorite friends," he said. "It's like your phones have a thing for each other. Of course, it's a female friend, so my wife is like, 'You're calling her all the time."' Complicating things further, his own phone is his sales manager's favorite friend. "Her phone calls me all the time," he said. "I'll get a call and hear whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. It's her, walking." "Dilbert" cartoonist Scott Adams wrote on his blog, dilbert.org, that he feels the phantom vibrations, "about 10 times per day" and thinks "'Ooh, it's an e-mail with good news!' So far, the only good news is that my pocket is vibrating, and that's OK because it gives me hope that the condition might spread to the rest of my pants." ... "It's like, my phone should be ringing," he said. "It's anticipatory vibrations." ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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