What would also be good (but, I guess, an impossibility to invent) would be a zapper to stop people from talking when watching TV at home. These are people who see the television as wallpaper and must have it on in their houses all the time - they're not really watching at all. It gets me hopping mad when visiting people and, even more so, when visitors do it in my house, especially if it's a programme they have specifically asked to watch ! If I choose to watch a TV programme (which is increasingly rarely, these days), then I want to concentrate on it, and it alone. Sadly, I've seen this talking over the top of things filtering through into cinemas and even theatres. (Yes, I know, if you go back several centuries, that's how theatres always used to be, but it's not the convention now !) By the way, I would never *dream* of putting or keeping the TV on when visitors are in the house, unless they specifically say they would like to watch something.

Grumpy old woman's rant over for the day.....or, at least, for the time being.....

- jeanie