[IP] Phantom Vibrations or ringxiety

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Happens to me djf

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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 ringxiety

http://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."


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