Hasta La Gadget!

How do you know you’ve got a problem? I’d say it’s time to start worrying about 48 hours into an online gambling marathon. Three days after beginning an online gambling marathon in a Internet café near Bejing, a man collapsed an fell into a coma. He was driven to a clinic and pronounced dead shortly after.

According to witnesses, the man hadn’t eaten, slept, or moved from his computer in all of that time. In the past month, he’d gambled away 10,000 yuan ($1,500). Police haven’t released the man’s name, saying only that he was in his mid-30s.

Several computers were removed from the café as evidence. Internet addiction has become a rapidly increasing issue in the country, which is currently home to an estimated 30 million people suffering from the problem