Someone should make a regular USB desktop keyboard that has an integrated PDA cradle. Put the PDA in, flip a switch and now you're typing on your PDA. Flip the switch again and you're typing on your machine.

Someone should make a CD player that will automatically "rip and remember" every CD that is put in it. That way all the music ever played in that CD will be available.

Prediction: Every CD player *will* be able to read discs full of MP3s. Two years, max, until this happens.

I want a flowchart program that helps me sketch and lets me make mistakes. I shouldn't have to think things out *and then* put them into the system. The system should help me and not make it more difficult.

I want my parking garage to use a debit card like those pre-paid phone cards. Drive up, slide the slip that I got when I came in, slide the pre-paid parking card, and I'm off.

Olson's 1st law of technology: every player shrinks until it reaches one of two limits: The size of the medium it plays, or the size that is easy for a human to keep track of. Examples: No cell phone will shrink below the size of a keypad that is typable until voice activation is reliable. No CD Player will ever be smaller than a CD. No Cassette Player will be smaller than a cassette. No Minidisc player will be smaller than a minidisc. No MP3 player will be smaller than it's medium. Compact Flash? Multimedia Card? SD card?

I would love to see a Minidisc player that simply clips onto a Minidisc. Could you do the same with a CD?

I did see an MP3 player that was simply a pair of headphones. Almost small enough.

Ramble, ramble...

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