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Computers - The Vital Statistics - Pronkertjie - 09-12-2004
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* There are an estimated 100 million laptop users in the world
* Of the five million laptops in Britain, about 100,000 are damaged each year and another 67,000
* More than £1.5 billion was spent on laptops in Britain last year, with more than three million laptops made in this country
* A recent poll found that laptops were the third mos popular gadget in Britain, after digital cameras and mobile phones
* While a mobile phone is sold to a Briton every minute, a laptop computer is bought every two minutes
* More than 400 laptops have gone missing from government departments in more than two years, according to a parliamentary answer from Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary
* Almost 600 other computers have disappeared from the Ministry of Defence in the past five years
* Recent research suggests that using computers intensively heightens the change of developing glaucoma, which can lead to blindness
* People with short sight run almost double the risk. Intensive computer use has also been linked to increased incidences of short-sightedness
* Other studies have suggested that radiation emitted by computer screens is responsible for headaches, anxiety, flu-like symptoms and even mascular pain
* The emissions from a desktop computer were found to have a range of 18ft and be capable of penetrating through 8ft of concrete :comp:
The Times 9/12/2004