Video doorbell (pop on tv, computer, cell phone)/remote doorlock,
Networked thermostat... allows consumer to control remotely adjust thermostat/allows electric company to control demand (lower priced power),
Intercomm, audio, phone interworking, security, lighting
Networked automobile

Lunch

Consolidate the mass of 6% players in enterprise

3COM is dead just doesn't know it

Optical world needs to roll up, Ciena yuck

Big on network computing

Some box that moves video around

http://www.slingmedia.com/index.html was an interest

I don't get it

Why can't road signs, building signs, be consistent and be correct? Constitant placement, icons, language, sizing...

Why don't I have a credit card that sends an email to me so I can slot every expense into a category... for my expense report, for my personal taxes, for my budget...

Is it me, or an I just the freak that buys the same stuff, goes the same places, and calls the same people over and over? I want an online grocery that has the stuff I buy on my shopping list. OJ, Milk, Bagels, Beer, there must be 25 things that make up 80% of what I buy.. is this so simply stupid.

Why don't conference bridges call out to get eveyone onto the bridge that has not dialed in?

Why don't browsers have some basic cookies available to any web site such as time zone and zip code?

Why doesn't Google provide a contact vcf to be dragged onto my contacts, or provide a click to call via my choice... based on mypreference, my cell for example?

Why don't conference call systems send SMSs that ask if you want to add a Con Call on your Ourlook calendar?

How about a credit card the fixes the credit card fraud problem by making me approve all puchases.. send my a SMS and I will say ok, before the approval system is allowed to approve the transaction... if over an amount, or out of an area, or if for certain kinds of retail genre?

Why don't web radio, Google news, Yahoo, etc. track surfing and interests to coorelate interests... if someone is looking at the stuff I am, maybe I would be interested in the same things?

Why doesn't my bank send emails if I haven't paid a bill I regularly pay each month?

Why when I look at a mapquest map or a Yahoo map doesn't it end up as a location on my nav screen on my Nav system in my car? How else would I get there?

Is there a way to broadcast music over my homenetwork so all my devices have the same thing?

Is there a random montage of pictures and videos for my plasma screen to display stuff randomly?

If call logs show up on my computer, in Vonage, or from my mobile phone, why can't I get it to show a vcf to add to my addy book?? I mean, how often do I have to look up the same freakin pizza ship?

If browsers can have autocomplete, why can'f phone complete phone numbers?

Thin is in at home and the office

But thin doesn't mean weak. My idea of thin means clean, crisp, elegant, not a gaming machine, but it would support Windows XP, Office 2003, and TV/tivo functions

What I want is a better monitor. I want a 19" with better speakers, a built in mic ( I have it in my notebook) and a built in video camera. The mic would have a BOM of around $2, and the video camera around $20. and the speakers... which could include an jack for a sub maybe (this would have a cost of perhaps $10, include the wireless mouse and kyb thing, and lastly a couple of USB connectors and it would clean up my world!!! Fewer wires, less cost, cleanly done.

• 19" 4:3 and 16:9 ... use top of the line LCDs
  - and bigger screens.... its just plastic after all !!!
  - after all, if I have a 42" over my mantel, I really want it to be stand alone... and if the cost is an extra $1000 or less, why not?
• useful speakers... enough volume for music, TV, and video conf
• USB ports on edge
• wireless mouse/keyboard sending unit
• microphone
• video camera
• The BOM for all would be under $50, and the retail postioning would be premium and yield an up sale of $100 to $150

Then allow multple ways to mount.

• From the top (as in under cabinent)
• From the bottom (as in sitting on the desk)
• And from the back (mounted to the wall)
• And from a boom

Then the next would be to put an IPX computer and HDD in case, adding one inch to the case. The power would be provided by a seperate brick. VIA runs at 1.3Mhz, with a 7200 rpm SATA 2.5" 80 G drive, 1 G of DRAM, built in 802.11G, and no CD/DVD ROM (and external drive is avaiable in the market)

Tech Directions

The home PC is stablizing-- only gamers push the envelope

• There is potential in cases... quiet, small. Imagine a PC that is thin... as thin as a laptop without a screen, mouse pad, or keyboard... screw it to the botton my the cabinent, add a TV tuner, and you can check the mail, weather, calendar, tasks, pay bills... where you used to. In the kitchen... oh, and use it to set the thermostat, sprinklers, and security system.
  
• Why is there no mainstream monitor with a video cam built in.
• What about a monitor/TV that mounts in the kitchen... with a microphone, video cam built in. Better have a red blinking light when the camera is on!

The automobile is the next bastion

• Auto TIVO for the car
• with GPS, location based services, concerige push... with a client in the home, or where ever people want it.... a new applicaiton. Call your friend, get directions... just tell him your IP address
• Software runs as a server at home. Collecting stuff for your car, and caching it there. How? the autoPC is has a couple of USB ports, a couple of PCMCIA ports allowing commodity networking via Bluetooth (the phone in your pocket could sync files), the autoPC could sync via any 802.11 AccessPoint, and use GPRS and 1X. In fact, with 1X, GPRS the server could push information based on rules. Traffic, weather, voicemail, call logs, alerts.
  
• All the hardware exists
• Software is missing 1) unfied call log 2) portal for pushing 3) heuristic content collection (all clicks and reponses in the car would be feed for analysis 4)
  
• Who wins? PC manufactures, Networking companies, Wireless operators (a whole new source of account (making accounts sticky), Retail (Best Buy, Radio Shack), Content (iTunes, Yahoo, MSN), software, concericge services
• imagine integration with fuel gauge giving favorite gas station reminders (how does it know the favorite) GPS... it knows where you frequent