<The panels would be useful in cinemas, theatres, or anywhere where ringing mobile phones cause exasperation.

That would be anyplace I happen to be.

If these folks need umbilicals for every facet of daily life, they should just stay at home with Mom. But, no. They insisted on sharing their tiresome need with the world, and the phone companies went out of their way to accommodate, as did the newer entrepreneurial exchanges. Couldn't really blame them, though. Where there's a market, there's a buck to be made. This market, though, was created by the misfits of the world, who made their need everybody else's priority.

I really have no need for a cell phone. In my life, I have probably used a pay phone 150 times, mostly in the military. I hold no telecommunicable skills/data that will save a single human life, ergo whatever it is can wait, and 24/7 contact between me and the telecommunications medium is hardly needed.

"If necessity is the Mother of invention, surely laziness is the Father."
-- Benjamin Franklin (who hated switching from his regular glasses to his reading glasses all the time -- among other things he found solutions for)

Dan