Space Invader Sofa

Back in the day when I was a nipper, televisions were reasonably priced and reasonably sized. Now most family homes resemble cinemas, with great swathes of wall being covered with flat screen LCD televisions.

Sometimes, when television programmes zoom in one someone’s face, the average viewer with a 54 inch screen might now be confronted with a four foot wide ugly mug glaring at them from the wall. This is particularly true for programmes like "Mastermind" and "Who wants to be a Millionaire" where the camera zooms in incrementally, almost surreptitiously, until there is little more that a giant nostril left on the screen.

But there’s no worry of the picture looming too large if you're sitting on the Space Invader Sofa. Hit the sofa shaped green button on your remote control, and your sofa's motorised castors rumble backwards on their reclaimed railway girders until the TV screen at a less invasive, less threatening, distance.