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Tea shops, Shakespeare, erm, fibre optics...Just some of things that make us British. In case you didn't know, the land of the bard and the leaf is also the land of tech. British people are embracing digital technology faster than any other country on earth.

Ofcom’s International Communications Market Report has revealed that Britons have more digital TVs and recorders per head than any other country, as well as the most HD sets. We’re second in the world when it comes to web-surfing (the U.S. won that one, unsurprisingly); half our net users have signed up to one or more networking sites and Brits spend 839 minutes a week online (reading our online publication).

We lurve watching TV online, coming second (again, the U.S. hit the top spot there); and we’ve joined the Scandinavians in 100 per cent mobile phone saturation (i.e. there are more subscriptions in the UK than there are people).

We here at Absolute Gadget are hoping that this high level of tech-love means the UK will be spared in the Great Robot Uprising of 2037. And no, we can’t tell you how we know about that…

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