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| Amusement Park Bans PDAs and Smartphones                           |
|   from the cold-dead-fingers dept.                                 |
|   posted by kdawson on Sunday May 25, @14:28 (Handhelds)           |
|   http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/25/1726257 |
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[0]Ant writes in with news that an amusement park in the UK is trying out
a [1]ban on smartphones and PDAs, with the intent to enable families
actually to have fun together. The press release says that from May 25 to
June 1, adults found using a PDA will be asked to drop it off at a “PDA
Drop Off Zone” — no word on what happens if they refuse. But both the
[2]Sun and [3]BoingBoing, which picked up their brief story, strike a
more ominous note with the claim that “special wardens” will confiscate
the devices. If the experiment is deemed a success the park may make the
ban permanent.

Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/25/1726257

Links:
0. http://aqfl.net/
1. http://www.altontowers.com/pages/pda
2. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1198732.ece
3. http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/23/amusement-park-hires.html