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All ready to play the game. - MOHAMMED YOUSUF

If you have ever been on a long drive with kids in your car, you can recite all the stuff that would happen: they start off with asking for water, then biscuits and then saying they are hungry; after all that, they will ask whether they are close to the destination and when they will get there; once you give them a time, they will keep looking at the clock, and if not old enough to read time, keep asking every five minutes if it is time yet; they will get into violent arguments; and finally, they will start kicking the back of the driver's seat till you either stop the car and give them an ultimatum or your loved one gives them a smart slap, with the end result being a silent but ominous sulk, or banshee-like screaming all the way to your destination.

No, I am not a sadist trying to break the dam of your violent feelings engendered from that day; just recounting it for the pleasure of those who haven't been on a long drive with kids, either deliberately or fortunately.

But you no longer have to wait for that day with dread if a project called `Backseat Playground' (http://www.tii.se/mobility/BSP/) in Sweden becomes wildly successful and popular and one of our telecom companies tries to bring it here: the project tries to convert the route you take into a game based on the places, their significance and the objects that you pass by.

The project is based on two earlier projects called `Backseat Gaming' and `Road Rager'.

Now you should just make sure that they are enough game consoles or there is going to be some fighting over that!

N. Nagaraj

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