Technology wishlist

With apologies to those of you who land on this page in disappointment having been searching for news of the existence of the very same products.  Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments.

Photo by “Lily Dustbin” – used under license.

• Internet-enabled washing machine.  Not so that you can order washing powder from a web-browser.  Instead so that it tells you over the internet where you are in the cycle, when it will have finished, you can see if certain components are starting to fail, see how much time is spent waiting for water to heat up, get an idea of the energy efficiency etc.
• Automatic DVD-resume-in-the-right-place – happens very rarely on all the software I’ve tried, you’d have thought someone would have got it right by now.  Similarly, if I reinsert a DVD I own/have rented, do I really have to sit through the pirary/copyright warnings a second, third, fourth time without being allowed to fast forward them? Surely not unreasonable for software developers to remove this restriction if a DVD that’s already been watched once is played again?
• Apple to rewrite iTunes on the PC so it doesn’t run like treacle and can actually play full-size video without constant stuttering.
• Ability to sync an iPhone/iPod Touch with Itunes wirelessly (this may already be possible, I don’t own an iphone.)  Much of my life consists of taking iphone from room/room then back to PC whilst trying to keep track of place in a long podcast.
• Next year’s 3rd generation iPhone (not to be confused with iPhone 3G) to have more flash capacity – at least 32G, a decent camera with proper flash and at least an FM radio receiver, if not a DAB chip.
• Asus to build 3G (ie. UMTS/HSDPA) support into next their eee PC.
• Amazon to launch Amazon MP3 in the UK.
• Amazon to launch Kindle in the UK.
• Amazon to launch Amazon Unbox in the UK.
• Amazon UK to take DVD rental service back in house.  OFT to investigate Lovefilm’s near monopoly.  (Have just switched to Blockbuster DVD rental service.  Feel a blogpost on this coming on.)
• Oystercard to be rolled out all national rail and bus services.
• Wifi access on trains across the country.
• Live google map of London/regional buses.
• Similar service to tell you when your post is likely to turn up.
• UK Mobile operators to transmit useful information, free of charge over GSM cell broadcast system.  Partnership with the BBC perhaps? (perhaps another way of doing Visual Radio or a DAB companion data service.)
• A quality UK equivalent/companion to the This Week in Tech / Geekbrief podcasts.
• Electricity providers to create an online map/log of all power outages.
• Much faster satellite-acquisition in GPS devices.
• NASA TV to be broadcast FTA in Europe, rather than only being available online.
• Cash machines to give out £5 notes as standard.  Abolition of 1 and 2p coins. (OK, we’re straying from technology a little here.)
• No SPAM.

Any more of your own?