{"quotes":[{"text":"A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["cell-phone","cell-phones","cellular","digital","digital-age","lifeless","lives","mobile","mobile-phone","mobile-phones","planet","smartphone","soul","souls","trap","trapped","wise","wise-words","world"],"id":20122,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Computers and mobile devices are becoming known for their inherent insecurities and the ability to damage the long term health of the users.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["ability","becoming","computer","computer-hackers","computer-science","computer-viruses","computers","damage","device","devices","hand","harm","health","held","ill","illness","inflict","inherent","insecurities","insecurity","insecurity","known","long","mobile","mobile-device","mobile-phone","mobile-phones","people","sick","sickness","term","their","users"],"id":310138,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"On of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I lose my temper.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["anger","mobile-phone","phone","temper"],"id":324414,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"Yes' Simon nodded. 'This would suggest that these patterns grow inside the batteries until a critical point is reached, when the shapes develop no further, and the phone ceases to function.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["alien","cell-phone","creatures","horror","mobile-phone","technology","thriller"],"id":371221,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. 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Do we really need aviaries in pressurised tin cans at 30,000 feet as well ?","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["air-travel","aircraft","airplanes","aviaries","chatter","chatterbox","chattering","insanity","mobile-phone","mobile-phones","mobiles","nonsense","telephone-etiquette"],"id":461318,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}