Technology corner

On CNN.com there's a headline for a new gadget: the Jerk-o-Meter. Don't panic, it isn't a device to detect chronic masturbators. It measures speech patterns and rates the speaker's interest in the conversation on a level from 0 to 100. The designers claim it could be very useful to monitor cell phone conversations and warn the speaker that he/she is acting like a jerk, or tell them to hang up on the other person. Thank god, I was wondering when some brave scientist would finally smother the last vestiges of human interaction.