Linda Stone spoke with NPR’s Manoush Zomorodi on a recent episode of Zomorodi’s podcast, Body Electric. Stone coined the terms, “Screen Apnea” and “Email Apnea” in 2008, after noticing she was holding her breath or shallow breathing while working on personal technologies. She looked around, and noticed most people were doing what she was doing: poor posture + poor breathing while using personal technologies.
“I would inhale with anticipation, but I wouldn’t exhale because so many emails would be streaming in,” Stone recalled. “And this would go on for hours.”
Listen to the full episode here.
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