However, unwittingly use such gadgets could interfere with your health. To be more careful in using your favourite gadget, it's good to know the health risks resulting from the excessive use of gadgets and solutions that can be done, as quoted by the Daily Mail, Monday (22/07/2013):
1. Sight problem
If your eyes feel sore after staring at the phone screen, it is not surprising that the focus on a small object in a long time can cause dry eyes and cause inflammation and infection. Even worse, the phone can affect children's vision in the long term.
Consultant surgeons and eye disease in Luton & Dunstable University Hospital, Allon Barsam said the children that staring all day to the phone screen can be myopic when they are adults. There are also studies showing that the smartphone users use glasses faster that those who don't. According to Barsam, presbyopia or the inability to see objects at close range could occur at the end of the age of 40s. Therefore they need glasses.
"The distance between eye and phone which is around 10 inches, tend to be closer than the distance of the eye to the paper, so they are quicker to wear glasses," said Barsam. So, he hopes the eye can focus on three different distances are long-distance, reading distance, and the distance to the smartphone.
Solution: Enlarge the size of text on your phone and make the screen display not too bright. Try to use the phone in the room and light enough, and do not use smartphone more than 15 minutes at a time. Psychologist Dr Aric Sigman advised not to let children aged 3 to 7 years for playing games on the phone screen more than half an hour a day.
2. Disrupt the structure of the bone
A physiotherapist, Kirsten Lord says smartphones can change your posture. He saw a lot of people experience pain in the neck or shoulder due to the position of head jutted forward when they read something on their phone or tablet.
"This position crush the top spine and pressing on the nerve that connects your head. Consequently you can feel the stiffness, fatigue, or headache," said Lord.
Solution: Do some exercises to improve posture and lengthen muscles. For example, using a neck strap that placed in the centre of the head, and then pull the rope just like a person practicing sit-up.
3. Relax the jaw
Excessive use of the phone could change the shape of your jaw. "I see an increasing number of women in their 30s who experience sagging at the bottom of their faces," says cosmetic dermatologist Dr Sam Bunting.
According to Sam, as we grow older, also reduced skin elasticity and bending the neck forward for hours to see the phone or tablet allows more pull down on the skin.
Solution: try to hold smart phone or tablet right in front of you. Not under the surface of the chest so that your position will not constantly looking down.
4. Caused acne and prickly heat
Given a hot phone screen during a call, it is not surprising the experts concerned mobile users who frequently make calls, especially in a long time, have a higher risk of acne and prickly heat.
A magazine survey tested 30 mobile phones and found that the average handset contains 18 times more harmful germs than the toilet in the men's room sprinklers.
Solution: If you are prone to skin allergies, it is better to use a hands-free kit or wipe the phone screen using a saline solution slowly.
5. Damage hearing ability
Listening to music too loud through headphones can cause hearing noise and it will bother you. So you will hardly hear the speech of others, especially when there is background noise that makes you noisy, "says Karen Finch of Hearing Care Centre in Ipswich.
Solution: Always keep the volume level as low as possible and do not too long using headphones.
6. Inhibit sleep
Computers, laptops, tablets, and phones tend to put out blue light which allegedly interfere with natural hormones such as melatonin which helps a person to fall asleep.
Solution: research at the Mayo Clinic, Arizona, showed dimming the brightness settings and keep your mobile phone about 14 inches from the face can reduce the potential for delays in the process of sleep. If you need alarm, use a clock and place your cell phone outside the room at night.
7. Destructive Relationship
Phone might be able to facilitate communication with your partner, but a study suggests otherwise. "Technology can make it difficult to manage the boundaries in our lives," said Dr Emma Short, a psychologist at the University of Bedfordshire.
"When talking over the phone, we do not give the full physical attention on the other person. Study also showed the more we engage in social networking such as Facebook and Twitter, it will make your family, friends, co-workers, or our beloved cast," explains Emma.
Solution: Make a firm rule not to use the phone while hanging out with friends, family, co-workers, or your lover.
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