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…
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. States the professor:
We are creatures of habit and we have the ability to get addicted to quite uncommon things.
Feel free to explain now how you can give up your chosen telecomm thingie any time you want.
Warning given over techno addicts [BBC]
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While James and Marguerite Driessen’s patent covers a sort of vaguely broad concept—gift cards for pre-defined items that you purchase at a B&M store but use online—I kind of feel for them, given that Apple apparently dropped iTunes custom cards in the US (while continuing to offer them in the UK) to get around licensing the patent after they asked. Then Apple brought it back with Starbucks under their “Song of the Day” program, which gives you a gift card for a pre-set song at Starbucks. 
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