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iProtest: This service takes ring tones one further. Whether you're for Green Peace, the EFF, Right to Life, Pro Choice, Pro Business, or Anti-Global Warming, Apple will help you further your cause. Here's how it works. You choose your cause, then when someone calls you, instead of hearing the usual ring signal, they'll hear a carefully scripted protest message. When used in conjunction with caller ID, these messages can be personalized. For example, parents of college students might use such messages as "you'd better not be calling for more money???"

iShow: This miniature DLP projector is yet another Bluetooth device. With it, you can give a slide show anywhere. Folks on that commuter train seem bored? Maybe a video of your little darling's first piano recital will liven up the trip home. Imagine your popularity.

iSlack: An artificial intelligence service that learns by watching your responses to emails. Within a week, it'll be rescheduling meetings, delaying projects and making excuses just as well as you do yourself. Need some time at the beach? Maybe just a good morning of sleeping in? iSlack is for you. Makes you wonder if I wrote this blog myself, doesn't it?

There ya go, Steve. Feel free...