Can they honestly get any bigger? This latest panoramic television screen is nearly three feet wide so you can almost pretend you are at the cinema. With a Quintrix F image tube and ‘Fastext’ teletext of 200 pages, two Euroconnectors and multi-purpose remote control, this 32” TV brings you the most sophisticated picture and sound quality on the market. However, you have to buy your own popcorn. Whilst we are on the subject of progress and gadgets getting smaller, spare a thought for a poor Norfolk farmer who decided to set up his own dot.com company. His bank manager, to try to show him how it worked in practice, put him in touch with a technology tycoon from Tokyo and another from New York. Mr Giles arranged to meet these two influential business bods, but during the course of their meeting, realised he was a bit out of his depth. Especially when the Tokyo boss announced, “one moment please - I have a call coming through,” and promptly put his watch to his ear. “I can’t compete with that,” thought poor Mr Giles. Next thing the New Yorker jumped up saying, “excuse me, just gotta go check my e-mails,” and started pressing buttons on his cufflink. Our disillusioned farmer decided that he was never going to make it in the dot.com world and, despondently, got up to leave the room. To make matters worse, as he did so, he broke wind. “Oh, hold on a second,” he said, “fax coming through.”
