2.28.2009

My technology wishlist

I've started developing a mental technology wishlist. So far, it contains two things:
  • A desktop Twitter app that combines the functionality of SpliTweet, Tweetdeck and Digsby. I want to be able to monitor multiple accounts simultaneously, be able to easily see replies and DMs, and follow several search terms simultaneously. So far, no single app gives me this power. Developers? Who's up to the challenge?

  • My whole DVD collection digitized into a single box that has a customizable "random" function. This happens to me a lot: I'm channel surfing and come across a movie I already own on TV. But I'll watch the edited-for-TV version with commercials instead of just pulling out the DVD and popping it in. Why? Well, laziness for one, but mostly I just didn't realize I wanted to watch that movie then, and finding it randomly is delightful. So I'd like to have all my movies on one little box and be able to say, "Little box, please pull up a comedy film from the 1990s," and have it randomly choose one for me and start playing it. Wouldn't that be cool?
What's on your technology wishlist?

1 comments:

Jason said...

The ability to watch Netflix's Watch it now titles is very much like your wish number two.

I wish the Wii would re-release with the ability to hold multiple discs. I would love to not switch between wii titles like I do virtual console titles.