for_sv's blog

While many of us deskbound types have spent the past year surfing the Web, filling out spreadsheets, and eating Cheetos, brainy inventors have been hard at work coming up with many amazing inventions to make our lives even cushier. In the animatronics category, we find dander-less lap cats, bi-pedal personal agents, and the perfect beach-blanket companion, Robo-lobster. For a truly 21st-century crib, you'll need an intelligent oven, a handy CD-ROM shredder, and a glow-in-the-dark pet fish. Speaking of which, new-fangled bikinis will have you doing the best fish-out-of-water impersonation yet. Stop traffic as you tote an illuminated purse, and sport spy-cam shades while zipping off on your ice bike en route to a big-air day. Is all this really necessary? Of course not. But you can't blame them for dreaming.