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Friday, August 2, 2013

A 'dumbbell' to exercise thumbs of phone addicts

      
A 'dumbbell' to exercise thumbs of phone addicts
      NEW YORK: Thumbell, a dumbbell-like miniature weight has been designed to help people exercise their thumbs and aid smartphone users to fight off fatigue. 

            A UK mobile service provider is encouraging textaholics to turn their thumbs into lean, mean pressing machines with their tiny new Thumbells. The mobile service company and device provider O2 claims that over 26 million in the UK have complained of thumb pain in the past five years — after spending hours gaming, web browsing, and using social networks on their smartphones, 'New York Daily News' reported. 

         "Our research shows that excessive usage of the phone can leave people with sore thumbs, so we want our customers to make sure their thumbs are well looked after so they can make use of all the great technology that is available at their fingertips," David Johnson, general manager of devices for O2, told ABC News. The 65gmThumbell is currently being tested internally at the company.

Thumbell, a dumbbell-like miniature weight has been designed to help people exercise their thumbs and aid smartphone users to fight off fatigue.  

3 comments:

  1. haha funny.. they developing the trouble, and then they finding the solution tooo.

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