"These kids come out of school and when they join the army, they are experts with Playstation controls. Our controls inside vehicles play into that, because they are already half-trained in how to use them."

So says Douglas Caster, the chief executive of Ultra Electronics in The Daily Telegraph. Ultra has seen its profits rise by 16% in the first half of this year based on selling fab stuff like weapons deployment systems.

According to Doug, there is also little chance that profits will dip for a while, "because US's defence budget is likely to remain high on the back of 'international tension'".

Phew, that's a relief then. Now, we looked over Ultra's website for its PlayStation control devices - and all we could come up with was the joystick pictured right.

^{Source: Telegraph}