"There are actually people out there doing this," he said. "I've seen a message board out there on the 'Net where people can share their ideas and describe their installations. Technology has become so mobile and inexpensive that I think it's just a natural progression to have a computer built in to your car. It's no doubt that in the future they'll come like this from the factory. We're already starting to see this type of thing on high-end cars."

Rigby, though, will likely stay ahead of them.

"It would be interesting if I could somehow control the state of my apartment while I was driving home from work," he said. "In other words, I'd like to be able to log in and flip the heat on while commuting home. If I could get my crock pot going that would be pretty nice, too. I would like to do useless things like this just because I can."

Share your setup!

Have you done similar projects or even surpassed Rigby? Let us know by sending in photos and a description of your setup to David Ramel (david_ramel@computerworld.com).