[Mike]

Originally Posted by Andrew Blair

This isn't really an inventor struggling to bring his product to market, but awesome anyways. http://www.zigbee.org/en/index.asp

Web site doesn't show much, but the idea is this: Put a little thingy in your wall, wire it into outlets, and you know have wireless control of appliances (through the outlets). I want to be able to call a box in my kitchen and turn on the pot roast, or computer, or coffee maker, or belgian waffle iron . Maybe its the geek factor (look at the remote control!), but it sounds pretty flippin' awesome to me!

They've had that for a while, it's called X11 and it's fairly cheap.