US Researchers have created a robot that can pick up a towel from a pile of laundry, fold and then stack it. Housewives with spare cash are eagerly putting their names down to be the first recipients as soon as the invention comes on the market.
Jeremiah Tomkins, Principal Researcher in Advanced Electronics at San Jose University, California expects the product to be on the shelves within the next few weeks.
Furious football fans north of the border have bombarded the news channels with the observation that the Scots have been using an invention for many seasons that stitches up the national game every year - the SPL.