HSBC's First Direct bank says "the UK has built up a gadget mountain of over 400 million pieces of kit which equates to more than 16 gadgets in every household". The most popular device is the mobile phone, but the TV set is still doing OK, with 2.5 per household. The full list is as follows:
Mobile phone handsets 69.8 million Televisions 59.6 million DVD players / recorders 39.4 million Sat / free-view boxes / cable TV 29.5 million Analogue radios 28.5 million Stereos with CD player 28.5 million iPods / MP3 players 25.2 million PCs / laptops with broadband 24.5 million Digital cameras 23 million VCRs 22.3 million Personal Computers 19.2 million Games consoles 18.7 million Digital (DAB) radios 13.2 million Video cameras 9.6 million Blackberries and other digital assistants 4.1 million Projectors to watch TV / movie 3.4 million
The numbers are from ICM, "who surveyed a representative sample over 1000 adults from around the UK", but I can't say I believe all of them. The numbers for DAB versus "analogue" radios, for example, look decidedly dodgy.
I'm also gutted about the inclusion of video projectors, because I don't have one. Otherwise I would have had a full house.....
