Trust the Japanese to come up with weird gizmos. Today I read in Economic Times about an electronic kettle that sends an email twice a day to the relatives that the elder person who the kettle belongs to “made tea today”! This vaguely sounded like baby monitors – sort of confirming what is said about old age being the second childhood.

But what was disquieting about this was the confirmation that though the technology is progressing by leaps and bounds humans are getting lonelier. :-(