Freebox: not free, but the future

Dear USA, guess what, this almost impossibly cool instrument is not available in your country yet - sorry.

Imagine you could plug a box to your TV and get the things you get out of all your boxes now. Broadband internet, countless TV channels and free unlimited phonecalls, of course. Internet-enabled TV, with a full browser. An app store for games that look better than Wii games, controlled with a remote with built-in motion sensors. A Blu-Ray player. A 250GB hard drive that you can use to build your own server. And imagine that box is designed by globally acclaimed designer Philippe Starck.

The Freebox, as it is called, is a product of one of the biggest telcos in the world, and the brainchild of Xavier Niel, who also owns the French newspaper Le Monde. More here.