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Which gadgets make it into your suitcase?

Techs on the beach…

Tags: gadgets, ipod, mp3, holiday

By Tim Ferguson

Published: 29 January 2008 15:14 GMT

It seems we're increasingly unable to get away from our gadgets - with many of us happily packing them for our holidays too.

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Perhaps unsurprisingly just under three-quarters of respondents to a survey said they take their mobile phones on holiday with them. And for people under the age of 34, this figure rises to 92 per cent, according to Continental Research's 2008 Holiday Report.

Other common gadgets taken on holiday include digital cameras (66 per cent), MP3 player (27 per cent) and digital camcorders (13 per cent).

But perhaps more surprisingly, 10 per cent of those surveyed said they take their laptop on vacation, with the same proportion taking a games console with them.

But not everyone is attached by the hip to their gadgets, with 17 per cent saying they take no digital device on holiday with them. But for people under 34, this goes down to just four per cent.

Author of the report, Colin Shaddick, said younger people are often early adopters and based on the evidence of the survey, people are becoming less likely to go on holiday to escape their everyday life.

Other items named included GPS (four per cent) - presumably to find your way to your Tuscan villa - while one per cent admitted to taking their BlackBerry along with them.

Continental Research quizzed 684 people for the survey.

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