According to the data, over 50% of you answered five or more of the questions with a "yes" answer. Okay, I can see that—you are reading a gadget blog after all. But the interesting thing is that the answer with the highest number of responses was a "yes" answer to all twelve questions. Really? All twelve? I mean, these aren't all fluff questions—actually it reads more like "signs you might grow up to be a serial killer." Maybe spending $14,500 on a 45-day program isn't such a bad idea after all.

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Three guards (who are now detained) apparently beat the boy for "running too slowly," despite the camp promising that it uses no techniques that might compromise a visitor's health. His father had paid the camp $1,024 for Deng Senshan's treatment.

According to Time, there are hundreds of such camps in China. This is the first reported death from an internet addiction facility. [Global Times via WSJ via The Raw Feed]

It sounds almost too terrible to be true, but research is starting to show that a large crop of humanity's future is becoming so addicted to TV time and video games that their basic communication skills are not materializing. Instead, UK kids are apparently Dr. Who savants with wicked hand-eye coordination. That's great for Halo online multiplayer, but not great for the kids, as the epidemic is purportedly more prevalent than dyslexia or autism, experts said.

The problem has spurred Tory MP John Bercow to propose an ambitious nation-wide screening program to ID these developmentally challenged youths and treat them accordingly. The screening tests would be conducted during routine annual checkups just like an eye or hearing test test.

And a brief aside to close things out: Video games at two years old? I think I was trying to put square blocks into circular holes, but whatever. I'm not jealous just as sure as I am that my name is... [The Telegraph]

I've never played World of Warcraft. I'm not sure if the abbreviation is pronounced by spelling out the letters W-O-W or if you just saw "wow." It seems like the kind of thing where you have to know the difference between an elf and an orc, and I gotta be honest, I just don't care. But this is so over-the-top that I'm almost interested in finding the one true ring or banging lady-dwarves or whatever you do in that game. Prepared's setup features a whopping seven separate laptops, four desktops hidden away under the desk, and an array of screens that's disorienting even in a static image. He might be the only person on earth who's capable of using the 15-button mouse. Prepared claims that $5700 a year is reasonable for a hobby, and he's totally right. I can think of at least three hard drugs that would be more expensive.

Edit: I've been informed that our industrious nerd is not Bradster but Prepared. Sorry for the commotion this must have caused Bradster and his family. [Ripten via Crunchgear]

They were brought in after spending an average of six hours a day on their phones, talking, texting or playing games.

Their parents became concerned that the children, aged 12 and 13, were unable to carry out normal activities without their handsets. They were failing at school and deceiving relatives in an attempt to obtain more money for phone cards.

According to the doctors on staff, it's the first time that a "specific" treatment has been used to cure mobile phone addiction. Then again, these are children who are 12 and 13. They seem a lot more like two kids distracted from their school work than strung-out junkies begging for quarters at the side of the road so that they can get their next fix. [telegraph]

How about you? Could you do without? – Charlie White

The director of the clinic said that video game addiction is just like any other kind of addiction and that similar patterns of behavior can be found between alcoholics and video game addicts.

The moral of the story? Don't stay inside all day playing Xbox 360. It'll rot your brain. – Nicholas Deleon

Detox Clinic Opening for Video Addicts [AP/Washington Post]