Fitness through IT?

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Philips-DirectLife-Activity-Monitor,review-1509.html

This is an interesting little device that attempts to monitor your calorie expenditure through the day and communicate it with an available personal trainer at phillips HQ. Although there are limits for highly specific motions like an exercise bike, there is a huge potential advantage (as the writer notes) in simply providing a highly visible reminder of daily activity for each of us.
I'm not personally convinced I'd buy one yet since I spend so much time rock climbing and weight training that don't show up well but I think this is a technology I'm certainly going to be watching develop in the future.

Gold Plated IT

http://whymba8125why.blogspot.com/
This is outside the realm of traditional business function, but I found it interesting that we seem to have an increasing number of luxury gadgets, from multiple companies. I personally can't imagine a gold plated video game system ever not looking tacky. I find it especially interesting that they mention another company competing over gold and diamond covered iphones. How many businesses can tacky luxury electronics support?

Business Power Up?

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-itanium-tukwila-xeon-nehalem,9634.html

This is another new tech development, a highly stable processor with huge increases in bandwidth running over 30 simultaneous threads. I am suggesting for your analysis that as we see ever increasing single processor threads, which in turn greatly increases the total threads on the server, the possibility of an interaction with desktop multithreading (for example excel 2007, unlike its predecessors can expand across multiple threads or processing cores) that this can affect virtualization development. I was looking online but didn't see many recent articles on how a client sending an expanding number of threads would be handled. I'm wondering if there would have to be an artificial constraint on the number of separate threads submitted to a series of servers. Do you think any companies would miss this and potentially allow one power user to use a program like PC SAS on a virtual machine that could create a huge number of separate threads to affect server performance?

Mobile Technology

I thought I would share a review of the new Nexus one for any Android Fans. I'm still hoping for a future merging of the Net book and Smart phone forms in the future (I at least would be willing to exchange carrying something with say a 6.5 inch diagonal and a bit more weight in my pockets for more PC like web browsing and entertainment experience)
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Google-Nexus-One-Review,review-1497.html
I think that's my ultimate hope as I see more things like the Windows XP phone made available. Anyway Google being a highly innovative company. I expect their open source software to move the software portion of the industry into being more open to such developments. I know everyone has heard of the Apple ipad, Imigine a form factor mor splitting the differenc eiwth the iphone, sort of at the limit of what can be kept in a man's pockets, and another around the (width and length but not depth) of a small womans purse, kept razor thin so it was almost all screen