What do you think has been the best invention?

CAROL SMITH, Thompson Falls – "Computer email. You Can keep in touch with your relatives and it doesn't cost you a thing."

KATHY WINKLE, Sagle, Idaho ­– "The cellphone. It's the only phone I have. No landline."

GARY McGRAW, Plains – "Being a bachelor, I'd think it's a microwave."

JAMES THOMAS, Thompson Falls – "In the winter time, electric blankets. When my wife and I were first married, I told her I'd get her a dishwasher. I would wash dishes on holidays, but she started adding all the holidays, including Jewish ones."

KIM BAY, Thompson Falls – "The telephone. Where would we be without one. It is taken for granted by today's kids. technology is incredible."

SUZY MOTT, Thompson Falls – "Lights. We wouldn't be able to see in the dark."