Paper Monitor
11:04 UK time, Friday, 13 January 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ is where the heart is, they say, even if a certain estate agent might not spell it like that. Paper Monitor has always been a bit of a homebody but struggles with some of the duties that goes with it. That makes the Times's story from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas all the more intriguing.
The report suggests that at long last, the dream of having robots doing the housework could be within reach. On closer inspection these turn out to be smart devices with touchscreens and sensors that can identify individual people entering a room.
So no sci-fi robots, after all then? Well there is the Navibot vacuum cleaner, which can sniff out dust by itself and clean a 16ft by 16ft room in 12 minutes.
The other problem with home is the wearisome need for conversation with the other half. The Daily Express touches on this about the "conversation coma" that afflicts many couples.
The story is based on a survey suggesting that a quarter of couples spend less then 10 minutes a day talking to their partner. Almost as depressing is the claim that two thirds of people say they prefer spending time on Facebook, Twitter or other social networks to cooking dinner with their partner or having a chat with them.
In search of something more cheery Paper Monitor stumbles across the story in the Sun of how straight football fans . The piece - taken from gay lifestyle magazine Attitude - relates how after the French striker's goalscoring return for Arsenal, online forums took up the chorus "Thierry Henry is a man I would turn gay for!"
It's hard to know what's more surprising - the sentiment or the fact that the Sun would run a piece about this. The writer eventually accepts that the fans' assertion to "swap teams" may not be literally true.
But let's not spoil a good story, for as he concludes this is "next-level bromance."
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