High-tech gadgets such as BlackBerrys, mobile phones, games consoles and laptops are forcing millions of couples to regularly sleep apart, according to a new study.

 

The Sleep Council, which conducted the survey, found that four in ten people go to bed at a different time to their partner and eight out of 10 have admitted to using computers or other gadgets at bedtime.

 

Sending and receiving email and checking social networking sites, such as Facebook, have also become favourite bedtime activities.

 

According to the Sleep Council, this is in part because bedrooms have become a 'communications hub' instead of a place for sleep.

Are gadgets taking over our lives?

 

Do you spend time using gadgets and other forms of technology at bedtime or in other unusual places?

 

Where would you be without your broadband, wi-fi, satnav, Blackberry or mobile phone?

 

Source: Sunday Telegraph

 

I text in bed but thats about it

Do you spend time using gadgets and other forms of technology at bedtime

 

Fnar, fnar.

 

Sorry, just turned into Finbarr Saunders there.

 

Nope, bedtime is traditional - no more than a hot drink, a chapter of a book or a quick fumble.

 

I can spend too long on the laptop before heading to bed though :(