It's Official: Our Purses Have Become Totally Useless

"People fail to become aware of things around them that they would otherwise notice," Ira Hyman told Mic. Hyman, a professor of psychology at Western Washington University, researches our relationships with technology, including inattentional blindness in college students who use their phones while walking. In his study, the phone-using subjects didn't even notice a unicycling clown.