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Hazard at the Tip of Your Finger The use cellular phone has spread like wild fire in the last ten years. "Million people now subscribe to wireless service---up from 7.5 million in 1991" (Moore 30). It has become a part of everyday life for many American citizens, and a good number of pe...
Cell Phones: People Overuse Them Open with Impact: 570,000 injuries a year and 1.5 million crashes resulting in property damage can be blamed on wireless phone use according to an study at Harvard's University Center for Risk Analysis. Focus: This number is only going to grow with the incre...
Should Using a Cell Phone be Illegal While Driving?Cellular phones are one of the most widely and most popular forms of communication today. Though once considered rare luxuries, cellular telephones have become a commonplace possession over the last decade. Thanks in part to advances in wireless te...
Whenever I drive alone, a tiny voice buried deep in my mind starts talking to me. It asks me, "What are you going to do if your car breaks down?" Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I don't want to be stuck on a strange, dark, deserted road with a broken down car (which is one of my b...
Abstract: Cell phones have been around for nearly 15 years and are now everywhere you look. Over a quarter of Americans and a half of Europeans own cell phones and the numbers have been increasing exponentially. With the continuing increase in technology cell phones have become smaller, cheap...
Cell phones are a large part of our society in this day and age. Everyone from businessmen to country farmers has a cell phone. Cell phones may help in some situations, but are they really hindering more than helping? I admit that I am an avid user of my cellular phone. With the unlimited minutes ...
It is common in this day in age for everyone to have a cell phone. Most likely everyone in this room has one. People use cell phones everyday but do they really know how they operate. What causes a cell phone to work so easily and efficiently? Hopefully this speech can clear things up about th...
Do you have a cell phone? Well, to the many who do, it is a way of communication in a car. Cell phones have been known to distract the driver from concentrating on the road. But is it really worth banning? A majority of the nation agrees to ban cell phones in the use by the driver. Our nation is bas...
Cell phone companies usually have attractive offers and offer new cell phone models with the latest technology to attract customers. Accessing the internet, playing games, taking photos, sending messages, and downloading music are all features that are found on nearly all cell phones. Kids and teena...
Among the various inventions and discoveries of the modern era is one that has managed to entice everyone from the richest to the poorest of individuals. It is called the cell phone and is fast becoming a necessity in the everyday life of human beings. As one takes a stroll down the street, grab...
Ask anyone what they think of cell phones, and the answer you might receive will most probably be along the lines of: They are annoying, a nuisance, and can be dangerous while driving. No one wants to hear a cell phone go off during the climax of a movie, no one wants to overhear the relationship pr...
Living in the age known for technology, we have grown up watching undeveloped land evolve into industrial centers covered with power lines. We are now capable of viewing vital parts of our internal systems thanks to MRI'S, x-rays and other technology. We are able to cook in minutes thanks to ...
Cell Phone Safety The use of cellular phones has spread like wild fire in the last ten years. It has become a part of everyday life for many American citizens, and a good number of people depend on them to carry out daily operations. Unfortunately, many of these daily operations...
The Development of Cellular TelephonesHave you ever stopped to think what it would was like before we had cell phones? You couldn't just call from your car if you were running late for work, in a wreck, or trying to find directions. Technology is increasing day by day, and going to do nothing but ge...
On estimate, each year there are about 1.6 million car accidents caused by cell phone use. Since 2009, the year they passed a law banning cell phone use while driving, that number has not gone down very much. That is proof that banning cell phone use while driving hasn\'t stopped many people from us...
Families that make up our society and individuals are affected by different aspects of technology everyday. Communicating ideas clearly give great opportunities that help our society evolve to technology. Including cell phones, reality TV shows, and even computers combined with internet. What is a c...
The Information Age is now upon us. In the world today, technology is used all around us. Through the use of computers, cell phones, pagers, calculators, video game consoles, and many other technologically advanced products, communication has changed dramatically. The information age is changing peo...
The use of cellular phones has spread like wildfire in the last ten years. It has become a part of everyday life for many American citizens, and a good number of people depend on them to carry out daily operations. Unfortunately, many of these daily operations occur while the individual is driving. ...
The cellular phone, while not being directly related to automotive travel, has become one of the most popular and life-threatening innovations. "Today, one telematic device in particular - the cell phone - has become a significant highway safety concern" (Petri 32). The number of cellular ...
SAFETY V/S THE ANNOYING CELL PHONE Researchers suggest about 140 million people in the United States subscribe to cell phones, and 85% of them use the phone while driving. I did a survey interviewing three drivers concerning using a cell phone while driving. All three inte...
CELLULAR PHONES Each day something like 30,000 people in the United States sign up for and start using a cellular phone. With a cell phone you can talk to anyone on the planet from just about anywhere (80% of the U.S. has coverage). A cell phone is really an extremely sophisticated radio. ...
The food and drugs administration (FDA) in the US states that there is currently no scientific evidence to prove that the electromagnetic energy emitted by mobile phones affects health adversely. The administration, however, goes onto say that recent studies show that there may be a link between cel...
The war over the health hazards of cellular phones is beginning to mount. The idea that cellular phones possibly cause cancer became an issue in 1993 when a gentleman sued a cell phone manufacturer saying that the phone caused his wife's brain tumor and eventual death (Greenwald, 67). Both ...
Less than ten years ago, only a few people ran around with a cell phone as an essential body part. Now there is an estimated of 80 million people who own and use wireless telephones, and 85 percent of these people use their phone while driving. However, these handy devices are not just used in car...
In this new age of technology, it is incredibly common to see someone with a cellular phone in their hand whether walking across a street, driving in an automobile or buying a brand new one at a local wireless phone company. Seemingly, there are now well over 140 million cellular phone users around ...