Fly swats are old hat now. Latest thing I saw was a fly gun. It's basically a perforated disk which you push into the barrel of the 'gun' where it compresses a spring. Pull the trigger and the disk flies out and nails the fly. The disk moves so fast the fly can't evade. The advantages are that the fly doesn't get squashed flat and make a nasty smear that you have to clean up. Also, though I hate to say it, it is quite fun! (So it'll probably be banned soon, the way things are going here.)

Steve