The iRiver Wave Home does more than your traditional night stand clock. Much more. It is a digital picture frame. It is also a Linux computer with a 7-inch screen, which has the ability to play music (your own or from the radio) and video, display photos, make VoIP calls and do video conferencing.

(Yes, yes, I know you typically do not do that in bed. You keep bed for sleep and marital maneuvers. But you could use it to take VoIP calls although your partner might look at this askance.)

You can put in your contacts and your calendar events, send text messages and browse the web. It also has other widgets that can help you get traffic, weather, news and information.

You can even do mobile banking on the thing although this would give one pause. ‘Hold on a minute, honey, I just want to check my overdraft first’.

The iRiver Wave Home is shaped like an A-frame, comes with a touch-screen and a 2.5W speaker. It also has 1GB of flash memory, an SD Card slot, a 1.3 megapixel camera, a USB port and an ethernet port.

The device also has a phone attached to the back so for VoIP calls you don’t have to huddle around the Wave Home.

The Wave Home is scheduled to be out in South Korea in the next month and it is expected the Korean birth rate, already low, will fall further. It will be in the United States, ready to disrupt sex lives, in the next six months. Price will be around $250.

One waits eagerly for the first person to hurl it out of a bedroom window.

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Entry was posted on Sunday, January 11th, 2009 at 1:21 am under Uncategorized.

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