Academics across the pond are warning of a growing and increasingly serious trend for folks to get addicted to gadgets such as a Blackberry or iPhone.
In this case, the definition of "addiction" seems to have a lower threshold for damaging one's life than other, more popular roads to ruination. Signs of gadgaholism, according to professor Nada Kakabadse of Northampton University, include waking up at night to check your messages, neglecting friends and family to tinker with a device and anxiety when one is separated from the item of besottment. Says the professor:
Feel free to explain now how you can give up your chosen telecomm thingie any time you want.
Warning given over techno addicts [BBC]
