Easy now...put the cell phone downnnn...

This looks painful.

This cell phone microchip was created by two MIT research associates, James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, and was made so people can receive phone calls without the burden of toting a 3 ounce cell phone around, What have we done without THEM!? I am not one to fortell the future, but does anyone else see this going terribly wrong? Forget the hype behind using the landline during a thunderstorm folks, get ready for the real shock, which is this quote I found from the inventor himself.

"We realize that having unwanted sound information arriving directly into the user's brain would resemble technological schizophrenia, therefore maximum control is essential." Auger says.

Auger!! What are you thinking?! Maximum control is essential, huh, yes. Well this seems like a great idea. Is this battery powered? I can see it now... Matching lithium-ion tongue ring included. I could on for days about this one, but I won't. I will say, this is a great intro to my little speech about our obsession with cell phones...


What is the obsession with text messaging? I have done stories on the text message craze before and society's obsession with technology. Even in my last relationship I was guilty of it, always checking my phone or answering it when I was with my boyfriend. What is it that drives us to look at our phone if we are in the middle of conversation with another? That automatically puts that person at the bottom of the importance list. They feel second place.
I am wondering if that means that by answering your phone, you think it is an emergency (which are usually rare), but then we have voicemail, which we can check later. All of these are enough that we really need to be polite to our company and BE with them, when we are with them, not distracting ourselves with another object.
AND THEN we have TEXT MESSAGING.
Don't get me wrong, I love texting. I think it is so convenient and sometimes things just don't merit a phone call. When are you leaving, I'll call you later, etc. Those all fit into not meriting a phone call. However, full on conversations and asking people out, are those that definitely merit a phone call. Usually this is between a girl and guy, and the guy, instead of CALLING, decides to text. Is anyone else disappointed by this?
Our cell phone usage has gone so off the charts insane, that in social gatherings we furiously scroll through our phone the minute we are left alone. Heaven forbid we look like we aren't busy for half a minute. This will make us look uncool! Imagine if two people were sitting next to each other, both who were NOT scrolling through their phone menus, toggling with their screen brightness display and wallpaper settings, and actually had a conversation. Just two random people.
That is becoming less and less of an ocurrance I am sure, no doubt thanks to cell phones and people neglecting to "bother" each other. I love my cell phone, but if they don't cause brain cancer, they will surely be the death of us all. Hell, I came two inches from being hit by a DC connector bus crossing the street because I was on my cell phone. Maybe this will make me reevaluate my cell phone usage. ehh..probbbbly not.