Laptop design can be a pain in the posture Yahoo! News - Laptop design can be a pain in the posture: "No nationwide studies document the trend, but anecdotally, doctors and physical therapists say that as portable computers become cheaper, more powerful, smaller and lighter, and as wireless Internet access becomes ubiquitous, thousands are suffering persistent back, shoulder, wrist and neck aches.

The culprit: The keyboard and screen on laptops are too close to each other.

'When you use a laptop, you can make your head and neck comfortable, or you can make your hands and arms comfortable, but it's impossible to do both,' says Tom Albin of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, a national think tank that has issued a standards report on ergonomics of computer workstations."

"Have you seen pictures of kids using computers? They lie on their stomachs on the floor and work on their elbows.

"That's a prescription for a lifetime of neck pain, back pain and lower back pain."
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