Funny isn't it.
These days mobile phones aren't just phones any more, they're maps and they're address books, and they're mp3 players.
There are some thing that when I say them make me feel like I'm someones mum. MP3 players is definitely one of those things. MP3's. Who actually talks about MP3's apart from losers. I'm nit saying I don't listen to them. Whoaah there. I'm not a Luddite. I've got an ipod. I just don't refer to them. I think if you say the words MP3 player you don't really know what it means, you've just heard it somewhere and are trying it out. Yeah, it's got an mp3 player - and in the back of your mind you're just thinking "please don't ask me what an mp3 player is, please don't ask me what an mp3 player is, please don't ask m".
Or maybe it's one of those questions that you can go into the carphone warehouse and when they ask you what you're looking for you can smash it out of the park straight off.
"I like the look of this Sony, but does it have an mp3 player?" you might say, just to establish in the mind of the salesman you're not some dufus that he can offload his most rubbish phone onto because you won't know the difference. Even though you don't.
I digress.
So, where did we start. Phones these days do a lot of stuff, they're not just phones any more. They're multimedia hubs, with mp3 players (knowing wink).
Same with computers, computers have become TV's and radios and pornography superhighways all sorts of stuff I've got no idea about.
And the weird thing is that about 5 years ago, people we re saying this was all going to happen, that technology was going to converge on one of these items and that that was going to become the dominant item in the home, and the choices were TV, Phone or Kettle.
Now, I went Kettle.
Maybe that testifies to my tea 'problem' (do finger gestures). Or maybe, I'm ahead of the curve, and at some point when the computer and the mobile phone are tired battling it out to see who's going to be the daddy, who's going to be the appliance's appliance, maybe at that point, the Kettle, from nowhere might sneak in and win it.
Look, all I'm saying is that if you're in the market for a new Kettle, and I have been for about a year, hang on in there a touch longer, because you know what, and like I say, it's just a hunch, the world of Kettles is about to get very interesting.
You heard it here first.
Get down to Ladbrokes. £20 on Kettles being the big thing by 2012. They'll laugh at you now, and they might be laughing so hard it'll take a while to get that bet written down. But we'll see who's laughing.
Just in case I've presented too compelling an argument for Kettles there, and I've done it in the past, I'm not serious about £20 on Kettles at Ladbrokes.
Well, you know I am, but I feel I have to say that in case you judge me.
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