Nov
5
How blind to their surroundings can people be when they’re talking on their cell phones? Enough to miss seeing a clown — wearing bright purple and yellow clothes, with a red nose and big red shoes — riding a unicycle near them as they walked across Red Square on the Western Washington University campus, according to a study conducted by a WWU professor and his students. “That cell phone really disrupts things,” said Ira Hyman, psychology professor.
Study shows cell phone users miss the obvious, like a unicycling clown