My Bedroom 2.0

Have you met my rabbit? It can tell me when I have new emails, read them out lout, play internet radios, etc. I thought that was cool.

Then I met Chumby. A true 21st century alarm clock, so much better than the previous one: It is completely open source, connects to my home network, has a wide touch screen and not only will it display weather forecasts, flickr pictures, my facebook status, and give me a few chuck norris facts; I can also customize it with my own widgets. All I need, is a little flash lite knowledge to write my own widgets.

Those new devices are slowly erasing the line between “being connected” and “being offline”. What took a computer yesterday, can now be done with an alarm clock and tomorrow with a fridge or a table.

Now I wonder, what smart services do we expect in the 5 minutes between alarm ringing and actually leaving bed?