amd I agree about the most the exciting field of geekery - this is very interesting indeed.

Increasingly I find it uncomfortable that all these neat services I use to connet to my peers, really have just the one interface: my laptop screen. That is where the problem is. Because there is only a bit of it all that actually requires the focus of looking exclusively at a screen. The rest is peripheral. At home I use two screens, one for the focus stuff, the other for peripheral, and it helps, but not enough. Offloading the peripheral to other stuff than the screen, into your usual physical surroundings is an age-old proven response.

Thusfar the attempts are somewhat clumsy, like the Nabaztag wifi bunny. Others are ok, but still expensive (we just bought the (9 inch) Philips frame you mentioned for E250 as a gift for Elmine’s photo-crazy mom.)

Also a number of our favourite services would need to be able to ‘reside’ in multiple peripheral devices. E.g. I would love to have something like the Plazes/Jaiku equivalent of the Weasly clock in the Harry Potter books at home, but also want that information ‘to go’ on my mobile. (And the mobile mind you, will suffer from the same congestion our laptopscreen already does, creating a need for other mobile peripherals e.g. in clothing, or VR glasses or whatever)

Punching tunnels from the information landscape on-line (not just web, but internet in general) through to the physical reality of our everyday lives, and vice versa, is to me the singlemost exciting field of geekery development at this point.