The NY Times is hosting a great collection of illustrations today by award-winning artist and illustrator Christoph Niemann called, "My Life With Cables."

Everyone hates cables -- I challenge you to look at these illustrations without getting anxiety about that mess of gnarled crap behind your TV, computer, or what-have-you.

Here's my idea: some of the money in the Obama stimulus package going towards an energy overhaul should go to eradicating cables once and for all. Picture it: an all-wireless world. We'd save environmentally on all that copper and rubber casing currently junking up our homes and offices. And the best part: we'd finally jettison all the psychic angst those knotted tangles cause us.

Ok, maybe we're a long way from an all-wireless future. In the meantime, VTech is trying to bring us into that future, one small step at a time. Their new IS9181 internet radio device is a completely wireless, self-contained internet radio streamer that can connect to pretty much anything you own. A flying DeLorean it is not -- but I'll settle for a future without wires. -AM