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CDBS14 ]
This shit cant be for real' date=' lol. That kid had to have something ales wrong with her hands. thasts just ridiculous, lol.
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don't forget it is a one test subject study, that alone makes it unreliable.
That's what I thought too but I was like...it's on MSNBC.com it has to have 'some' kind of credibility
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Too much PlayStation may cause painful lumps
Lesions on palms occur due to long, tight grip on console, scientists say
LONDON - Gamers beware: Keeping too tight a grip on the console and furiously pushing the buttons can cause a newly identified skin disorder marked by painful lumps on the palms, Swiss scientists said on Tuesday.
Called "PlayStation palmar hidradentitis" by the scientists, the skin disorder can cause painful lesions on the palms similar to patches found on the soles of children's feet after taking part in heavy physical activity, they said.
"The tight and continuous grasping of the hand-grips together with repeated pushing of the buttons produce minor but continuous trauma to the (palm) surfaces," Vincent Piguet and colleagues at University Hospitals and Medical School of Geneva reported in the British Journal of Dermatology.
A spokesman for Sony Corp, which makes the PlayStation, noted the study involved one person and said the company had sold hundreds of millions of the consoles since the product was introduced in 1995.
"As with any leisure pursuit there are possible consequences of not following common sense, health advice and guidelines, as can be found within our instruction manuals," Sony spokesman David Wilson said.
"We would not wish to belittle this research and we will study the findings with interest, but this is the first time we have ever heard of a complaint of this nature."
Public health issue
Excessive gaming is already seen as a public health issue, sparking addictive behavior that can lead to a range of psychological problems, the researchers said.
Other researchers have identified acute tendonitis from playing too much of Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii, and now a disorder related to the PlayStation can be added to the list, the team said.
Their study described the case of a 12-year-old girl who attended the Geneva hospital with intensely painful lesions on her hands, which she had developed four weeks earlier. She had no other lesions anywhere else on her body.
After questioning, the doctors discovered that several days prior to the appearance of the lesions the girl had started to play a game on her PlayStation for several hours each day.
The researchers suspected that grasping the console's hand-grips together with repeated pushing of the buttons produced minor but prolonged injury to the palm of the girl's hands, which can be made worse by sweating during a tense game.
The doctors recommended the girl stop playing and she recovered fully after 10 days, the researchers said.
"If you're worried about soreness on your hands when playing a games console, it might be sensible to give your hands a break from time to time, and don't play excessively if your hands are prone to sweating," Nina Goad of the British Association of Dermatologists said in a statement.
Link to Article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29369122/
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Hopefully this will revive the stagnant PSP game development arena. I have barely picked up my PSP because of the lack of new titles released. If this can encourage developers to produce some new material I'm all for it. The picture makes it look really hot and it might even replace my iPhone for watching movies on the subway.
One thing I'd love to see is some built in memory...but I won't hold my breathe.
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MR.CLEAN.. ]
i like the SNUGGIES i think i have to get one...sorry when i hear about sham wow snuggies are the first thing that come to mind. :-\
My girlfriend bought one of those...I tell her she looks like a Jedi...its kinda hot
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Goat ]
He's suffering from Sham-Wow-Syndrome.
Besides that's no way to rant.. observe:
I don't even watch TV any more.. I mean sports! sure but that's about it. For movies I just rent them or buy em or download em. Ever look at the tv listings at 3am 90% of them are "Paid Advertisement" WTF? and what the hell is the deal with commercials these days? I watched a show with the boy the other night (by his request) and I swear it was like five minutes of the show followed by 15 minutes of commercials.. etc.. etc.. HOLY crapola!! it was ridiculous.. more than half the commercials were commercials for other shows!! fuck! you pay these assholes for cable, sat service, then they bombard you with commercials..
No wonder why we all play a game that doesn't work,, who the hell wants to watch TV?
LMFAO so true its sad...
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damn my work sucks...
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fixed it...lol made by one of our clan founders...SniperWolf....just wanted to make sure it worked fine over here as well
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IM gonna hijack your thread to test mine out
NEW PSP
in Playstation
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oh you can never have too many PS3's!!! I have 4 but that's because i bought mine when it was cheaper to buy a PS3 for a blu-ray player than to actually buy a blu-ray player...it all depends on if you have enough TVs to hook them up