CES
Raise your hand if you would like to be at CES. You could be strolling those aisles right now, looking at sixy gajillion new gadgets. Although I understand blogging isn't permitted by the CES organizers (and apparently wireless access isn't encouraged either, according to the Post's Rob Pegoraro), somehow Engadget has managed to have someone there.
But strolling/scrolling through the Engadget entries, I'm not as enthusiastic as I thought I might be. More and different openings to bits. More and different and faster ways to combine those bits. Surely we're just waiting for the Interface that will disappear, just as the net has disappeared. You're not “on the internet” any longer, you're just “online.” Or just reading, or whatever. These boxes don't look fun from a distance.
What did get my attention was the Alter Ego mirror. It's not at CES. It's a gadget that reacts to a person. It shows that person an image of themselves, and learns from the expression of its subject. Then it frowns unexpectedly, like a frightening doppelganger or a menacing bus driver. Now that's fun.