And now: splints for Blackberry thumb!
A new medical problem for geeks? According to this Wall Street Journal story (subscription required):
There are braces for bad knees, slings for sprained wrists, and now a remedy for sufferers of gadget addiction: splints for "Blackberry thumb."
...Fueling all this is an explosion in the number of people keeping in constant contact with friends, families and colleagues through wireless-data devices, more of which now use thumb keypads. The number of personal digital assistants in the U.S., including devices like the Palm and Blackberry, which is made by Research In Motion, jumped 43% to 8.3 million this year. Blackberry knockoffs such as the Hiptop are helping bring thumb-typing to the masses. And millions of cellphones can send text messages -- an obsession among young people in Japan and Europe that wireless carriers are promoting in the U.S.