In a comment on peterme.com over a year ago, I said I’d like to see a personal dashboard being displayed through one of those digital wifi photo frames attached to the inside of my front door, so I can see the appointments my wife and I have got that day on my way out, plus other reminders based on previo...

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Even after Luis Villa’s latest paean, I am genuinely not sure whether I could buy a Roomba. The thought of it slowly making its way from room to room whilst I’m at work just scares me slightly. Would you still feel as though your h...

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We’re just starting to ramp up the amount of testing we do on our web apps at work, mostly via the use of JUnit and some code coverage tools which are automated via CruiseControl. I’m reasonably interested in getting some automated user acceptance testing go...

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I was reading the other day about how futurologists get it wrong and how we’re never going to see an Internet Fridge. Well goddamn if I don’t want some variation on that. How much would I give for the ability to scan the barcodes of stuff I put in my cupboards and fridge, then scan it again when I remove it, and so be able to call up the list of what’s currently in my kitchen when I’m at...

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I want to be able to have something either on my desk, or stuck to my monitor which indicates what my current presence level is (e.g. available, do not disturb, working but please interrupt me, etc.), fed by my Instant Messenger presence. I’ve only been able to find a single buy-it-and-go option: the Ambient Orb, which loo...

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I’ve got a Bluetooth-enabled phone, and a Bluetooth-enabled computer. I’m online and I’m using Jabber. Except I’ve set my status to “Do Not Disturb” – when I do, it’s not for fun, there’s a reason, so it’s pretty annoying when my phone then rings or bleeps and vibrates to let me know I’ve got a message. I don’t care about messages – I’m busy. So why can’t my phone know about my ...

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This might be neat. Joggle auto-annotation: maintain a list of a) words and b) links that are automatically replaced when they feature in a blog entry (e.g. ‘Google’ gets replaced with ‘<a href=”http://www.google.com” title=”Google” alt=”Link to Google”>Google</a>’ ) provide an “annotate” link which allows you to review the words of the entry you’re maki...

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