Among the digitally obese
Off to London to tomorrow. A strict diet of biscuits, crisps, chicken tikka masala and fish & chips washed down with bottles of Imperial Stout will be adhered to. Well, that's what the Brits subsist on, innit? Along with piling on the physical pounds these days, the Queen's subjects are also becoming "digitally obese". A study by Toshiba has found that "music, images, e-mails, and texts are being hoarded on mobiles, cameras, laptops and PDAs" in the Kingdom. Treating one gigabyte as the digital equivalent of a pick-up truck piled with paper, the study found that many Britons were carrying 10 trucks worth of data. This is particularly good news for the producers of mobile content as the report predicts that people could be carrying around 20 gigabytes of data next year. Although not all of that will be on mobile phones, the trend clearly favours the producers of ringtones, images and film clips.
Wonder how much I'll weigh when I return?
