Study: Britain Addicted to Gadgets

Posted 10/13/2010 at 5:08am | by Paul Lilly

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Think you're obsessed with technology? Try living in Britain and having a look around. A new study of 3,000 men and women reveals that our British brethren spend a whopping nine hours playing with gadgets.

"We all know that modern technology plays an important part in everyday life, but it is incredible to think that so many hours are spent using gadgets," said Stephen Ebbet from www.protectyourbubble.com, which commissioned the research.

"The average person probably isn't even awake for much longer than 16 hours a day, and more than half of that time is completely dominated by gizmos.

"The fact is that many of the electrical appliances used regularly - such as the computer, washing machine and microwave - are both necessary and time saving. So we might spend a few minutes fiddling with them, but they continue to work and carry out tasks for us even when we're busy doing something else."

Nevertheless, only a fourth of respondents said they are totally obsessed with gadgets, while 61 percent admitted to being surprised at how much time they spend with with technology.

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