Next time you’re tempted to describe your gorgeous body and corking CV to your new-found Skype flirt-pal, make sure that you’re honest. Because, if your correspondent has downloaded the KishKish Lie Detector, honesty is definitely the best policy.

KishKish, an upcoming premium addition to the Skype add-on family, reads your Skype caller’s stress levels by analysing audio streams in real-time. Theory has it that if their stress levels are high, they’re telling porkies. (High stress levels could, of course, also mean that they’re just a bit nervous or dying to go to the loo, but let’s ignore that for now.)

“This is a really excellent application, and the kind of thing we want to see more of,” said Paul Amery, Skype’s developer director. Paul has a point, but personally I’m a little upset that ‘bradnewyork’ may soon discover that I haven’t, in fact, got Angelina Jolie’s lips, a pad in Tuscany and a PhD in thermonuclear physics.