What a nightmare – Virgin Media 02’s connected playground

Taking your kids to a playground or the park used to be a welcome escape from technology everywhere – not least for the little blighters who won’t put the iPad down.

Now Virgin Media O2 has created a kids’ playground in North London that’s fully wired – a horrible, garish, noisy atrocity. With a tame professor in tow.

Children’s development? Is there no escape?