Home Shopping Channel

Steve Jeffrey offers the following suggestions for increasing the superfluous technology in your life:

The Sonic Molecatcher (advertised in an Innovations catalogue near you -- or your feet, if you open the Sunday papers and shake out all the extraneous bits over the carpet).

[I'm astonished that Steve hasn't mentioned that the sonic molecatcher advertises its ten inches of throbbing reverberating mole repellant -- Alison] [That's never ten inches! -- Sue]

Also the 'Glow in the Dark'-eyes cutout cat-on-a-stick, service as the perfect lawn accessory and bird scarer. Except I have visions of a group (cluster, parliament or whatever -- unfortunately the Dictionary of Collective Nouns is at Maureen's, where for reasons best left unspecified we were looking up wombats -- and beavers -- this being all Mark Plummer's fault), anyway, a wossname of crows standing about wondering why someone has planted a cat that has come off a poor second in a fight with steamroller in the middle of their lawn.

And Robert Lichtman adds:

I must attempt to top your gadget of the month with one I saw recently: a pepper spray canister cleverly disguised as a pager. It tempted me for a moment.

However, we think the superfluous item of choice for this month is the wood veneer Microsoft Natural keyboard, as mentioned in Wired 2.06UK.


Previous Article

Next Article

Issue Contents

Plokta Index

Visit the Plokta News Network: News and comment for SF fandom