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Here at Ouch, we like to pride ourselves that on some things, we were so way ahead of the game that it was almost like we were predicting the future. Clever, aren't we?

Way back in the mists of time - September 2002 to be precise, barely three months after your favourite disability website sprang into the world as a bouncing baby - stand-up comedian Francesca Martinez, at that time one of our crack team of columnists, wrote an article called I Love High Heels, all about her love for shoes that, whilst highly feminine and desirable, are slightly impractical for someone with self-confessed wobbling difficulties. Towards the end of her column - which remains one of this site's most popular and often-searched reads to this day, fact fans - Francesca almost pleaded for shoes that "will be designed to have a special retractable heel. This unique mechanism will allow the shoe to be flat when walking but (here's the science part) when Francesca is seated or stationary, a heel will come shooting out and click into place. Once on the move again, the heel will retract and - voila! - balance will be restored ..."

Nearly five years later, what did Monkey find in a recent copy of the Daily Mail but about a inew invention - "a pair of three-and-a-quarter-inch high heels which transform into comfortable one-inch flats in only three seconds".

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Ouch - not only the best disability website in the entire known universe, but also one that can see into the future like a disablified Mystic Meg.