Ok this thing is just cool .. how many companies out there have some screen sitting up showing the status of their system? This “glowing orb“ available from ThinkGeek in my mind makes a much cooler monitorring system.
This thing is $150, on a nationwide wireless network, and has a simple programmable interface.
Just think .. its portable :) You could write a custom interface to your system and give sysadmins etc these little balls to carry around with them (or executives could keep them in their offices).
The company also has other products using the same network including dashboards and beacons.
The way I see it, this is a whole lot cooler than most of the admin monitors I have seen around lately!
Oh and the lewd joke they bring up makes it all worthwhile!