Forget the wheel. Forget sliced bread. Forget scotch.

This may well go down as the greatest invention in the history of the world.

All hail - Kids Be Gone, a new device being installed at various locales around the nation designed to make teenagers, and other annoying children - go away.

I’ll take two.

According to its creators. Kids Be Gone is a wall-mounted box that emits loud, horrible, irritating sound at such a high-frequency decibel level only people roughly between the ages of 12 and early 20s can hear.

About a 1,000 units of Kids Be Gone have been sold in the United States and Canada, where they have been placed in areas where the youthful louts tend to congregate and loiter, generally just about anywhere I happen to be.

On second thought, I’ll take three.

Now if only the company that makes this wonderful, wonderful, wonderful item, could also produce a portable, hand-held version. Imagine the endless possibilities!

You are at a baseball game and there in front of you are two perfectly loathsome children engaged in beating each other up. ZAP! And off they go whining and holding their ears. And life is good.

You are in a movie theater trying to enjoy the film when a bunch of teenagers start babbling in total indifference to the rest of the patrons. Yep, this sure sounds like a call for Kids Be Gone! Ba-Bye.

Bratty children in the grocery stores, doltish kiddos with skateboards, even the misbehaving child in church - our prayers have been answered.

Really now can you think of a more important technological advance worthy of a Nobel Prize for something, than Kids Be Gone?

Come to think of it, I’ll take four.