Mobile Backlight Saves Patient's Life
Filed in archive News , Smartphones , Wireless Living by Rico Mossesgeld on August 13, 2007

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Leonardo Molina was under the knife due to appendicitis
. And as luck would have it, the operating room lost power:"The generator, which should have been working correctly, didn't work. The surgeons and anaesthetists were in the dark... A family member got some cell phones together from people in the hallway and took them in to provide light," said a spokesperson.
This quirky (and potentially fatal) news item shows that the manufacturers' R&D efforts can have great side effects. Namely, the increasing brightness of smartphone and PDA displays, and their lessening power consumption.
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