Virtually all of us need break

CRAFT brewer Innis & Gunn has created virtual reality boozing. Drinkers ordering their ale get a VR headset showing images which “enhance and alter their taste”. Like the beer goggles that come with six pints of Stella, then? ARE you one of the 15 million folk having a “detox break” this summer?

I don’ don’t mean the hipster kind – a fortnight in a Mongolian yurt having kale smo smoothies, colonic irrigation and opening your chakras to the chiming of a Tibe Tibetan gong.

Nope, a “digital detox” – abandoning your smartphones, tablets and compute computers and withdrawing from the worldwid worldwide web to get a life.

Ofcom says UK adults now spend an avera average 25 hours a week online and are l losing sleep, shirking housework an and neglecting friends and family. AndA researchers in Pennsylvaniava say constantly checking our work emails causes “overload and anticipatory stress”. So a third of Brits are plann ning to take a complete break f from technology while on th their summer hols. I can highly recommend it. I had a digital detox while laid up si sick and discovered how many hours I fritter away online and checkin checking social media instead of reading books and talking to friends. But i t’s tough to kick the habit co completely and I’ve already relapsed relapsed. Now I I’m wasting even more time trying to catch up on important stuff, l i ke Po Pokémon Go, why Tom Hiddlest Hiddlestone s Taylor Swift, and searchin searching for the un- pixelated pictures of Orlando Bloom’s paddle.