But are they Necessary?
But there's no word on whether this is going to happen or when. But seeing what's going on right now on social media or getting those messages out during the downtime of walking is a constant temptation. People are walking while staring intently at their phones, texting their friends, sending e-mails or reading social media sites rather than paying attention to the sidewalks, roads or other pedestrians around them. This could include social media applications, as well. In this age of rampant cell phone ownership and use, especially that of the ever-connected smartphone, texting and walking injuries are becoming more common, and they range from minor to fatal. But phone use is on the rise and the problem of distracted walking is likely to only get worse. Whether you decide to abstain from staring at your phone while walking or to keep doing it and use technology to make it a little safer, awareness of the danger around you is the first step to avoiding accidents.
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The Audio Aware app by One Llama is under development for Android devices as of early 2014. It will use your phone's audio equipment to listen for sounds of danger, like car horns, screaming, screeching tires or sirens. The patent doesn't confine the idea to smartphones and mentions other configurations of computing equipment that can be used to the same end. It's not yet a reality, but the company filed a patent in 2012 that was made public by the U.S. In early 2014, Dr. Dietrich V. Jehle, professor of emergency medicine at the University of Buffalo in New York, stated that around 15 percent of the 41,000 pedestrians treated annually in emergency rooms in the U.S. Another in Melbourne, Australia walked off a pier while Facebooking and had to be rescued from frigid water by emergency personnel. Transparent texting should be better than the status quo, but you probably still won't be paying strict attention to your surroundings while your mind is engaged in the act of messaging, even if you can essentially see "through" your phone screen. Hopefully we all know that looking at our phones instead of the road while driving is extremely dangerous, far more so than simply talking on the phone while driving (although that has its risks, too).
The patent mentions that the app makes the user less likely to run into or stumble over things while texting. It allows you to type text on top of a live feed from the camera, but doesn't allow messaging from within the app itself. The video will change in real-time as you move around, and the text bubbles will continuously scroll as you type or receive new messages. Instead, you hit a copy button, close the app and open whatever app you want to paste the text into. It then goes on to describe functionality that makes the background of the messaging app display live video captured by the phone's rear facing camera (or any camera facing away from the user). Patent and Trademark Office in March 2014. It shows a functionality that could let you continue to stare at your phone while simultaneously remaining aware of what's in front of you -- or at least in front of your phone. Does keeping texts on my phone slow its performance? But while most of us are still too squeamish to speak our texts in public, or too broke to always have the latest phone, transparent texting, or an equivalent downloadable app, might be a good stopgap measure to prevent needless injuries and fatalities.
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Is this a good solution? World Has About 6 Billion Cell Phone Subscribers, According To U.N. The organization then conducted an observational study involving more than 34,000 teenagers and found that 20 percent of high school students cross the street while distracted by cell phones, music and other electronic devices. The attention issues aside, another study found texting while walking slows your pace and causes you to veer off course. A man texting in the Los Angeles suburbs walked dangerously close to a bear that was wandering his neighborhood before he noticed it and ran away. Apple describes a possible balm to the texting and walking problem in their Transparent Texting patent. There are several existing apps that do similar things for Apple and non-Apple phones. You can't get support from Apple on a jailbroken phone, although you can reverse the jailbreak (which will wipe the unofficial apps) and get support.
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