[floatl][/floatl]AFP: Nearly half of Japanese bathe with cellphones, poll finds
Hi-tech mobile phones and leisurely baths are well-known passions of the Japanese -- and apparently they're not mutually exclusive. A survey released Monday showed that 41.2 percent of people in the country have at least once taken their mobile phones to the bathtub to make calls, type e-mails, listen to music or play games. The practice extends across all sexes and ages, although teenagers were the most likely to have bathed with their phones, according to the poll of 16,250 people carried out by video-game maker Sega. The most common reason for taking the phone to the tub was to type e-mails, followed closely by listening to music...more...