Enthusiastic Wii Sports usage has seen televisions destroyed by flying remotes and a variety of injuries, including fractured limbs, dislocated knee caps, torn knee ligaments and facial injuries.
Victoria Jaye, head of TV content for the BBC iPlayer, said on a BBC blog there had been a "significant surge in BBC iPlayer usage, as people all over the country un-wrap new devices and take the opportunity to enjoy our terrific range of programmes, at a time that suits them".
Strikingly, over the three weeks the project has been running, the street's average energy use has dropped by 15%, with some people cutting usage by as much as 30%.
It added that the financial crisis may have been a factor in more recent increases in usage, noting that in Spain and Portugal, for example, antidepressant prescriptions have jumped by more than 20% over the past five years.
Compare My Energy is an online tool available in the UK that compares a consumer's energy usage with similar households in their area (though not yet for Wales).
"It's so much easier to manage usage," Dariusz said.
I'm very pleased to see that for properties like ours, we're quite significantly below average on gas usage and marginally below average on electricity.
Our mobile usage has doubled in the past year, so it's definitely a priority for us.
The disclosure bill, a complement to one pushed in the Senate last week, is the latest in a series of legislative attempts to rein in the NSA's collection and analysis of Americans' phone records and, potentially, Internet usage.
We have implemented pan-African human rights activism at the grassroots by optimising usage of our social media networks.
The first references to the bedroom tax in our corpus appear in 2011 but usage increased dramatically around the time this new provision came into force, in April 2013.
