21/08/2008 01:35. If you have woken today to find the world has not been blown to bits by Mr Putin, please consider the design of your house keys. Yes, there they are, in the Mysterious Bowl Of Everything, by the phone, in the hall with the13 amp fuses and one stray earring.

The door key has hardly changed shape since it was introduced by the Egyptians. Like the wheel, was a case of right first time; thatll do lads, if someone can just invent the tyre well be off down the Nefertiti Arms to watch the slave tossing.

Not so the car key.

You might think that the day in 1910 Cadillac salesman Richard Bendix woke up and thought: Oh, for breakfast I shall have waffles and then invent the automotive turn-key ignition, marked a defining innovation which went further than just doing away with crank start. It... // Southport Visiter