Do you hate your cell phone but can’t live without it? You’re not alone. Nearly one in three adult Americans told researchers in a study released Wednesday that the cell phone was the invention they hated most but couldn’t live without. Thirty percent of the adults in the researchers’ sample put the cell phone at the top of their necessary evils list, 25 percent chose the alarm clock, and 23 percent picked television. The findings were part of the eighth annual invention index study sponsored by the Lemelson-MIT program at that Cambridge, Massachusetts, university.
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Cell Phones Top List of Necessary Evils
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. January 22, 2004 08:00 AMDo you hate your cell phone but can’t live without it? You’re not alone. Nearly one in three adult Americans told researchers in a study released Wednesday that the cell phone was the invention they hated most but couldn’t live without. Thirty percent of the adults in the researchers’ sample put the cell phone at the top of their necessary evils list, 25 percent chose the alarm clock, and 23 percent picked television. The findings were part of the eighth annual invention index study sponsored by the Lemelson-MIT program at that Cambridge, Massachusetts, university.