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Gadgets Driving Couples to Sleep Separately
By: PTI   |   Mar 10, 2008
Homes today are filled with increasing numbers of high-tech gadgets, from smart phones and computers to state-of-the-art TV and audio systems. But a new study has found that these have actually become bedroom bugs.

A team of researchers in Britain has found that the high-tech gadgets are forcing millions of couples to sleep apart with the bedroom becoming a communications hub rather than a place for sleep.

"Busy night-time routines are driving couples' bedtimes and even their bedrooms apart," the British media quoted Jessica Alexander of the Sleep Council, which carried out the study, as saying.

In their study, the researchers surveyed 1,400 people in Britain between Feb 27 and March three.

They found that one in ten couples sleep in different beds every night while a quarter admit to doing so on a daily basis; four in ten people go to bed at a different time to their partner.

More than one in five people (22 per cent) now use their mobile phone or Blackberry over the traditional alarm clock, after cleaning their teeth with an electric toothbrush, the study revealed.

One in three people are happy to chat on the phone, send and receive text messages or answer emails while tucked up in bed and 20 per cent have checked social networking sites like Facebook, played computer games or listened to Mp3 players between the sheets.
 
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