Rapid Rise of Children With Cellphones

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21.8 percent of girls have them, compared with 18.3 percent of boys. Most of the children surveyed who had cellphones were 10 or 11 years old; Mediamark reported that 36.1 percent of children in that age range had phones.

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Rapid Rise of Children With Cellphones. NYTimes.

Comments from Google Buzz:

Vamsi Balakrishnan - Maybe now would be the time to apply for a grant to do a study following a random group of 10,000 kids and see cancer rates in terms of cell phone usage, blue tooth usage, etc.?

Ves Dimov, M.D. - Who knows... May be Bluetooth causes blue tooth... :)

Vamsi Balakrishnan - I have this image in my mind of a tooth turning blue slowly depending on usage. Or if the person has an incoming call.

A slight off shoot of the tattoo and contacts that have been postulated for diabetics that would change color depending on glucose levels. If only the future was here now. :(

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