I've been thinking about Rob's original idea, and what I'd personally like to see is a pocketable server with innate bluetooth, wifi routing ability, static storage, etc. Think about LAN parties taken to the next level: WLAN parties with MIDs of any kind that share a game hosted by the pocketable server. In such a scenario multiplayer games can happen ANYwhere. Anyone toting such a server could enable it to broadcast its identity (it could even be a GPS POI) so that ad hoc multiplayer games could spring up anywhere, anytime. HTML-based lobby would list the games supported, which could even be downloadable from the pocketable server or internet as needed (same for maps).

The pocketable server takes the hosting load so that all participating MIDs are able to focus resources on just the client-side stuff.

I have some 770s that are unusable for normal use... maybe I could use one as the breadboard for such a thing...

Or use this: http://news.softpedia.com/news/OpenB...nd-82111.shtml