For Xmas 2006

From Applied Minds in the US - Babble. A hardback-sized device that "captures the user's voice, splices it into random bits then spits out the scrambled speech in multiple streams through a nearby speaker. The result sounds like low-level party chatter where all the guests are one person". Babble renders the most sensitive or naughty conversations untelligible to office eavesdroppers and blog posters - no more locking yourself in the small meeting room to talk to Patsy. Available by mail order from CAANZ late next year.