A tax product which continually allows you to enter stuff

Last week I did my taxes and found that a software product which is like a quicken lite and money lite which will allow you a year round keeping track of your tax records would be very beneficial. Current software products typically are one-time use products. Though they import from last years record there is no one place to keep all the records related to tax and file when you are ready with your actual year end records.

A document reader which can summarize important points in a given document

When I look at a very long ebay item description or a blog or a web page, I know what to look for. For example things like its broken, selling for parts for an ebay listing may be mentioned as a matter of fact where it should be the key fact. Or when you are looking a doorway web page, the software should say "this is a door way web page and has no content". What I would like is a good software which automates what a keen individual can find and show in a sidebar. An additional customization capability which would allow us to specify what we want to look for would make it even more useful.

List of this year's gadgets that do exist

The following from Fast Company has some cool gadgets of 2005 that exist. Some from NY Times.

Another tech product I just remembered

How about a credit card combined with secur-id type technology? This is something I always wondered about ever since my days of working at VeriFone. (that was a decade back before it was acquired by HP and re-spun off if somebody thinking VeriFone is a new company) The answer in the early internet days was supposed to be SET ( I believe it was not adopted because people deemed it expensive and unconvenient). This would make stealing credit card data totally useless( stealing a credit card will still work like today until it is discovered) and credit card fraud a thing of past.

Technology gadgets/features in gadgets I wish existed

This is my blog of gadgets I wished existed. Every time I think of something I will try to post here.

1. A Wi-fi entertainment server where you connect all your media inputs which will broadcast in your home. For this to completely work it needs to take internet, cable, dish and any other crap. And there should be a simple player which can select the stuff it is broadcasting. Ideally I would like this to be part of the display devices like TVs. This should be capable of storing large number of music files, films, recorded shows (DVR) and should be able to receive multiple inputs. (slingbox comes very close but it does not have DVR and needs a PC to display)
   
2. An ipod based wifi-PDA/Cellphone. (see my Things to do with dell axim x30) Even though, my dell axim can play mp3s and can act like a wireless phone with skype, I would like a ipod-cool product.
   
3. A navigation system which is capable of showing selected points of interest (like rest-stops, starbucks or pizzahuts) when we want them without having to search for them while we are driving by them. (see my Magellan Roadmate 360 review)
   
4. A phone which can combine skype or some VOIP phone with the regular phone.
5. A software application which will fetch all the news I am interested into my laptop (see my shopping for laptops in holiday season 2005) for offline browsing from places where I am not connected to internet. ( update on 2/6/06, it appears you could do something like this with IE, look at this link at microsoft.)