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Mobile Devices and the Ailments that Come Along with Them

By Can Tran, published Aug 09, 2007
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With mobile devices being more common place in this day and age, you see people with at least a mobile phone or an iPod. Especially in the more urban cities such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, or San Francisco, you're going to see people with such devices. When you go to the park or a coffee shop, there are going to be people using a Blackberry or a laptop.

Excessive uses of these devices come with all sorts of ailments that can be diagnosed. Mobile technology makes things easier for us as long as it is used responsibly. Irresponsible use of these devices comes with all sorts of unpleasant disorders which could be easily avoided.

The most common device nowadays is mobile phones. Mobile phones are very common to a point where you see middle school kids carrying these things around. A mobile phone is should be used as what it is, a phone. All of a sudden there are all these new features that enable you to watch shows and TVs from the screen of your mobile phone. But there's an ailment that's associated with watching too much from your small monitor.

This ailment is called "cellular blindness". The condition doesn't really blind you though. Cellular blindness is an ailment that either puts a strain on your eyes or causes dryness by looking at the tiny screen on your cell phone for an extended period of time. There a lot of things that can attribute to cellular blindness.

You can get cellular blindness from playing a mobile phone game. With the number of mobile phone games available, your eyes could be glued to the screen for several hours. Extended playing of mobile phone games can and will attribute to cellular blindness. Looking at the small screen is going to put a major strain on your eyes and that's not going to be good.

The next way which is already described is by watching all sorts of footage. Verizon has a few mobile phone models that enable you to watch YouTube videos. YouTube can be pretty addicting because you can find almost any kind of footage. Other service providers have their own monthly plans that also enable you to watch video.

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