Schulze and Webb have demonstrated a ton of really interesting projects on their site. (Also check out Metal Phone). But Availabot is my favourite. This little guy stands to attention when your chat buddy's online, and collapses when they're not. Brilliantly simple. So many people have little toys and figures on their desk; this makes that phenomenon useful - and trickles some useful information to the edge of your attention.
Even better, they reckon they can personalise each figure (in the early prototype days anyway) so it can look like you, or I guess like the person you might be chatting with. I wonder if you can do them serially, there's about four people I reguarly chat with, if they could all be lined up - showing their respective availability, that'd be perfect.
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