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Wait, does anyone actually take baths anymore? I sure don’t. None of my friends (girls and guys) do either. I guess it’s popular in Japan.
A new study from Sega polled 16,250 people regarding their mobile phone use. Following on the absence of 2G mobile phone sales in January, the new report finds that the island-nation is all about using their 3G handsets wherever they go – even in the bath-tub. They found that 41.2% of all Japanese people had brought their cellphone with them while taking a bath at least once. Email, gaming, music player, whatever the reason, it seems that Japanese teenagers were more likely to risk drowning their handset for a quick cell-fix.
I always read up on my RSS feeds in the bathroom, except I’m not taking a bath or a shower…
[Via: AllHeadlineNews]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
