of ephemeral value...

I got chance to have a longish play with an I-Tech Bluetooth virtual keyboard recently and I am quite suprised on just how useable it is. The only issue is that even though it can talk to your PDA/phone wirelessly, you still need to be able to see the PDA/phone display so you can't leave them in your pocket.
But then I came across Light Blue Optics and their matchbox sized projector. Combine the keyboard and the display into one small box and you wouldn't have to take your PDA/phone or laptop out.

I find that wearing gloves makes it difficult to use my 3rd generation iPod as quite often my dry gloves would not register with iPod touch sensitive buttons. So on these cold winter mornings I have taken to using my tongue to operate the skip to next track button. I tried using my nose but I found it more difficult to select the button!

Combining two functions into a single device can be usefull. But I feel that the joining of a mouse and voip phone into a single device is not combination that would prove usefull. The Sony VN-CX1 does this very thing, and I am left wondering what you do if you need to use your mouse while on the phone.

It would seem that with the current build (5270) of Windows Vista just about every operation you do (think basic things like starting the Task Manager) result in a Permit / Deny dialog asking you if you want to preceed. As a local administrator on the machine these prompts are just a pain in the behind. The solution is to change a setting in the Local Security Policy.
More details are here: http://www.zacknet.co.uk/vistabase/welcome.php which is an annoying frames based site so you have to follow the Security link on the left hand side and then the "What is User Account Protection" link. This is a direct link, which looses you the frame based navigation.