There are certain areas of Central New York that have terrible cell phone service for no apparent reason. The list is long and it's growing every minute.
Can you unplug for 24 hours? No texting. No social media. No online shopping. No gaming and no smart watches for an entire day. Reviews.org wants to give someone $2,400 to go 24 hours without technology in the Digital Detox Challenge.
Can you give up your cell phone for an entire meal? One Buffalo restaurant is offering a discount if you can disconnect to reconnect. Lebro's, an Italian eatery wants to bring family time back to dinner time. Co-owner Lee Federiconi says if customers can leave their phones in a covered bread basket for the entire meal, they'll receive 10% off their bill...
Have you ever looked up at a cellphone tower and wondered if it truly was real, or some crazy government project spying on you? Well, you can drop the crazy government part, but some cellphone towers are fake across the U.S.
We all know about the dangers of texting and using a cell phone while walking but one unlucky Bostonian learned the hard way that sleepwalking can be just as dangerous.
It seems as if cell phones have always been with us but they haven't. I don't remember exactly when cells started to become omnipresent but today almost everyone has one. Where does that leave the venerable land line, you know, the phone hooked up to the wall? Believe it or not there are still some good reasons to have one.
It has happened to all of us. We leave the house without our cell phone and miss that important call, can't take that great picture or are left at sea when all of our friends are sharing the most important texts ever. Actress Charlene DeGuzman has produced a hilarious video of the disaster that is, "I forgot my phone".
When I'm driving, I don't use my cell phone, but many of you do (legally, of course with a hands-free device). And it's not just your imagination that the car ahead of you is moving slower when the driver is using a cell phone...it is!