> > With the rise of IrDA compliant ports on PDAs, phones and printers,
> > there are potentially a lot of cool applications (plonk your phone or
> > PDA on the desk next to you workstation and it just hot-syncs[**]
> > automagically).
> 
> Anyone got some extra time they could sell me for cheap?  Something like
> 10 years or so, delivered next week?
A reason for not investing too much time is that IrDA will probably be 
dead in a few years (maybe it already is?).  Bluetooth is going to rule!
I hope. :-)  Nokia will probably be among the first companies to 
deliver phones with Bluetooth.

        -- Lennart