Here are some things you’re not likely to see this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but would be nice if we did…

10. Free Kindle book download when you purchase a physical book through Amazon. Touchscreen and color screen Kindle with the capability of using a Stylus like pen to highlight and write notes in the margins.

9. Kindle notes and highlights syncing with Evernote.  Also, Livescribe Pen syncing with Evernote.

8. Livescribe Pen with a quality and smooth roller ball pen tip instead of the cheap ball point. It’s an expensive pen – I’d like a good writing experience please.

7. 3D TV’s and Monitors that don’t require glasses.  There must be a way. Let’s make it happen.

6. 3D Wii Nintendo video games. Wow, that’s going to be cool!

5. Pleo available for $50. A Pleo relative – a lifelike and indestructible robotic dog that will play and entertain my real dog.

4. Large OLED networked digital frame to display photographic art that turns off automatically at bedtime when the lights are turned off.

3. iTablet connectivity with a new Apple TV, and Apple TV available with a monthly subscription for unlimited viewing instead of nickel and diming me with every download. Also, Slingbox functionality, so I can view media on the iTablet while traveling.

2. Got to plug Boxee. Boxee’s big play should be to offer live TV (goodbye Comcast). It’s in the networks’ interest to expand access to live content, so make it happen Fred Wilson.

1. A ruggedized and waterproof iphone or nexus one phone with much slimmer form factor with directional sound (and mic) capabilities, a technology that concentrates acoustic sound into a narrow beam that can be projected, so I don’t have to mess with bluetooth accessories.

What are your short-term technology wishes?

Here is a video giving a high level description of a UAV we’re developing.  The UAV and its software has been in development for 6 months, and we’re about a week away from its first autonomous test flight. So, stay tuned for the next episode!  (26 Minutes)http://www.vimeo.com/6440699

this is strangely alluring…

Thanks Jim for sending – original source unknown.

Fred Wilson’s post about the iPhone remote for Boxee inspired me.

What if there was an iPhone app, where you could easily create a universal remote, with all your preferences (favorite channels etc.) easily programmed by a drag and drop interface.

Universal remotes I’ve used in the past are hard to program, and generally don’t work very well…

There would then be a wifi-enabled device in your cabinet, which converts your iPhone commands to infrared, to control all your hardware!

Universal remotes I’ve used in the past are hard to program, and generally don’t work too well…

click here for a future concepts video created by Microsoft. Is it possible Microsoft will start inventing the future vs. copying everyone else? That would be exciting!

Michael Arrington has announced the specs of the second prototype of the CrunchPad.

I wonder if the real innovation here is the process by which the product is being developed.

To use Sam Savage’s analogy (doesn’t quite work perfectly in this case but close enough): The CrunchPad is a lightbulb, but the process by which it was created is like electricity that can potentially power many light bulbs.

Basically, Michael is using the reach and power of the TechCrunch platform, to inexpensively crowd source the development of the product (like Cambrian House, but more effectively?)

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Hard disk space on a tivo device is limited, and wouldn’t it be great to be able to build a library of favorite shows via an easy way to record to DVD-R or blu-ray? And, wouldn’t it be great to have an easy way to share and distribute favorite shows, or clips of shows without the current laborious and unnatural capture and upload methods?

Merry Christmas!

I first posted a link to this video in August, but am reposting, because I think it’s very inspiring and innovative. It’s a departure from 3d, extravagant graphics, and has a pen device, where what you draw becomes part of the game, a great example of mixed-reality gaming.