WSJ.  Sony to offer audio versions of old soap operas on a pay-per-use site.   Huh?  This is brain dead.  They should be packaging complete seasons of old TV shows and selling them as an all you can eat service.  Pump up the volume Sony!  The storage space to do this is there.  The bandwidth is there.  The demand is there. 

A service that used unused cable bandwidth to pump complete seasons of shows to a 120 Gb playback device would be very easy to build.  Would people pay $10 to $20 a month for access to this?  Millions would.  Star Trek, I Love Lucy, Seinfeld, Mash, etc should all be pumped out this way.  Delete the episodes you don't want.  The company that launches this is going to make a mint.  Ride the wave. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

11:22:45 PM    

Wireless Monitors? [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] Viewsonic link here.

It's not so much a monitor as a wireless tablet PC running WIN CE/.NET [Per the specs]. One of my current fields of inquiry is into decent family oriented PIM/CMS software. Being able to sync everyone's schedule, the recording of their favorite shows, when they'll be where and their contact numbers where they are is important for a family, and moreso for a business.

This all ties into my Higgins idea as well, of having MajorDomo that runs off your home server in the background, and takes care of day to day contact management etc for you.

So how does this tie into a "wireless monitor"? I can see these on nightstands around the country, slowly brightening to act as a combination light/noise alarm, and since it's ties into your PIM/CMS system, it makes it super easy to answer the phone, change your alarm settings, etc.

I know a lot of this tech exists in a variety of ways now, but there is a long row to hoe before we get to the point that ubiquity will bring down the prices to where everyone can afford it.

11:12:05 PM