Nifty > Word of the Day: Phantom Vibrations
From Columbia News Service via Blake.
Martin Conaghan, a cell phone user in Glasgow, Scotland, thinks that phantom vibrations are psychosomatic.
“When your phone actually does vibrate, you get a bit of a startle every time, until you get used to it; so perhaps your brain starts anticipating a vibration, so that you don't get startled (and embarrassed in public) when one arrives,” Conaghan wrote in an e-mail message.
He equated phantom phone vibrations to a phenomenon he called “vibroglaze," when a person’s eyes glaze over as their attention moves from a conversation with the person in front of them to a vibrating cell phone.
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