There are times when the use of IT to implement virtual reality makes me wonder if it's just me and all the other jokers are driving the wrong way down the M1, or what?!?
Checking out a suspiciously good deal on Dell laptops (not quite as good as it would have 
been if the blaps Henk Kleynhans and his mates spotted had paid off, but a good one nevertheless), an ad for what I can only think of as the DVD version of mood music caught my eye...
The virtual fire. Just plug in the DVD, adjust your screen and volume, and voila, you've all the mood that homo cavus or whatever he was called got out of a good blaze, without all the fussy, messy, time consuming stuff!
Not only that, but hey you can choose what type of fire you'd like! Maybe you'd just like some glowing coals... or a gas fire, or ... hey, what about an electric fire!
I vaguely get the idea of a fishtank simulation... but this is just one step before some schmuck tries to tell me a pill with all the protein of a steak, with some esters for aroma and taste and a fake fire DVD can replace a braai. If anyone ever does I'll make sure they use it as an enema!
Fake fire. pah!
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