Holding the tablet or computer too low, especially on your lap if you are sitting on your bed or a couch, can flex your neck forward leading to potential muscle strain.

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Some have agreed to no mobile phones in bed or on the couch, while others try to leave the gadgetry in their pockets when they go for brunch or dinner.

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He stopped sleeping in their bed and took to the couch.

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The fever lasted two days, but it took a week before he was close to better, before he was spending more time on the couch than in bed.

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You move to the couch, to the bed, to the back porch and your mood changes.

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Told from here, from this hard bench that is both bed and chair, table and couch, inside walls and bars painted a dark gray like a grim parody of jail, the story has a different ring than it would if I could tell it from the desk in my office.

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This has helped earn Mr. Fyfe the position as inaugural chairman of Star Alliance, the world's largest airline alliance, not to mention requests from other airlines for the technology behind the "sky couch, " which offers flat-bed seating in economy.

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She curls her feet beneath her on the couch, where she prefers to sleep instead of her bed.

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For Valentine's Day, Air New Zealand has launched a blind date contest called "Blind Gate" (get it?) to promote its new "sky couch, " a set of three seats that fold into a bed for two.

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Mrs Hoare, now a widow, ended up sleeping on the couch downstairs, fearful that her husband would fall out of the new bed.

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