Observered while watching a televised Duran Duran concert on high definition television: During the retro ballad "Save a Prayer", instead of holding up the customary lighter, much of the crowd at Wembley Arena raised glowing mobile phones to the air to create the intimate atmosphere that is the "power ballad lighter thing".

Does this mean that Duran Duran fans are now non-smokers? Or maybe Wembley doesn't allow smoking. Or maybe everyone was bored and already talking on the phone when the song came on, and it was more convenient to lift that in that in the air, rather than dig out their lighter. And then again, this could mean that the average person is now more likely to have a mobile phone, than a lighter on them (while watching Duran Duran--an extremely scientific metric).

Whatever it means, Duran Duran is still touring--and people with mobile phones like it.