You've seen the Clapper advertised on TV. It's a gizmo that turns lights on or off by the sound of your hands, well uh, clapping. Pretty descriptive product name, I'd say, and it's useful too.
I'd like to crank it up a notch though and make a clapper for people. It's a gizmo that shuts them up by the sound of your hands, well uh, clapping.
Don't tell me you haven't wished for such a product. Remember the last time you feigned interest while someone prattled on and on about their grandson's IQ or their recent gallstones operation? Human clapper time!
Problem is there are increasingly more and more human clapper moments. I'm thinking we're beyond the gizmo-gadget stage. We're in implanted microchip territory. Nothing painful or evil. Just something benign to cut the noise.
Remember though, that since we all have our "gallstones stories" some days you're the clapper and some days you're the clappee.
