Humans in year 3000 ‘will have text claw thumb, hunchback and second eyelids’

Research suggests years of smartphone and computer use will bring posture change, Mustafa Qadri reports

A tech company has highlighted how phone and computer use could impact the human body in 1,000 years (Toll Free Forwarding)

Future humans will have a “text claw thumb, hunchback and second eyelids” by the year 3000, a new study claims.

Researchers suggest looking down at mobile phones and spending hours sat at a computer screen could impact on how we develop over time.

American tech company Toll Free Forwarding designed a 3D model named Mindy to bring the impacts to life.

The animation, named “Mindy” has been given a hunched back, second eyelid, hands shaped as a claw, thicker skull, smaller brain, 90-degree bent elbow and a stiff tech neck.

The researchers said the “exaggerated” changes to the body show the potential harm of using technology too much, both physically and mentally.

A hunch back and a text claw thumb are among the changes after centuries of consistent tech use, researchers suggest (Toll Free Forwarding)

Toll Free Forwarding said: “The design and typical user habits of modern tech objects like smartphones and computer monitors have a significant impact on the way we sit and stand. Consistently adjusting our position to look down at our phone, or up at our office screen, has been proven to strain parts of our body that determine our posture.”

Researchers believe radical evolutionary development will cause humans to develop a second eyelid to limit the amount of harmful light our eyes are exposed to.

When explaining the arched back and tech neck, researchers said this would be due to spending long hours looking down at our phones which strains the neck and throws the spine off balance.

“The muscles in your neck have to expend extra effort to support your head. Sitting in front of the computer at the office for hours on end also means that your torso is pulled out in front of your hips rather than being stacked straight and aligned,” researchers explained.

A closer look at Mindy’s arm reveals she has a condition named ‘text claw.’

Researchers believe this will be due to consistent gripping of smartphones, particularly curling fingers around into an unnatural position for a long period.

The text claw thumb caused by consistent texting (Toll Free Forwarding)

Another condition due to holding smartphones is the 90-degree elbow, known as the ‘smartphone elbow’ on Mindy’s arm.

Scientifically, this position stretches nerves and can cause “weakness in the hands”.

Due to radiofrequency radiation emitted from smartphones, researchers believe humans will have a thicker skull and smaller brain to protect from harmful rays.

This concerns a 2011 World Health Organisation report which classified smartphone radiation as “possibly carcinogenic to humans”.

The researchers claimed there is research that shows how human brains shrunk between 1.9 million and 10,000 years ago and believe this will continue.