Funny thing about eye candy. It`s great until you get it out of the box and then it has a tendency to melt in your hand - like candy-floss on a stick.

Mrs O, always wanted one until 30 minutes after getting one - when all the little side popping widgets had popped out and in - and left a Rubic Cube of anti-desire, staring back.

The problem was, that everyone rictus grinned about them and what with their implicit OK, everyone bought one, (friends) even though they were often limited to turning it upright and sideways to flip the display.

Then there was the newscaster standing in front of the touch screen weather display on a giant studio screen - doing Jane Fonda esque stretches - pinches and so on - operating the weather forcast in the most labour intensive way possible.

(Hotel TV in the Orient)

You really wondered if that had a big car type battery built into the back -- carefully soldered in so you couldn`t change it. Or whether you would be sitting in front of your next new television operating the volume by wiping your finger licking chicken, digits over something that once resembled a clear screen.

But beyond that perhaps not too far off fantasy - the whole thing about the touch screen, news screen, screamed FAD.

Horses for courses of course - although I bet Ben Hur in his wildest dreams, never dreamed of operating the chariot from a touch screen glued onto the horses bottom.

Just wait - anything is possible....

Edited by oilrag on 15/06/2010 at 16:15