The New Underdogs And A Ball For A Computer

I have come to believe that a spell as "the underdogs" would bring out all that creative wizardry that is lurking somewhere in the caverns of microsoft. Alas, as is so common in many workplaces, it is quite possible that some of the best talent in the company is being hidden from the top by what I call cloudy managment.

At the moment,times are relitivly good. Microsoft is no 1, and if times were to change, there could be more internal scrabling within the company, looking for new ideas. There are signs of inovation....one that springs to mind is the microsoft sphere. I've come across many negative writings about this, but I think there would be many uses for this concept in the puplic arena, and not just information based.

At the moment the sphere requires external hardware, but it's only a matter of time until these machines become self contained, and tough to go with it. Here's an idea; you could have a sphere that has pixel size cameras, then you could almost make the thing appear to disappear, or any variation inbetween (great fun for two player games, i.e. your real life opponent could disappear and reappear).

How about this one: A tough and self contained sphere computer in disguise as a ball. This ball would know when a goal was scored, or it could work out pressure, wind speed etc in a shotput competition.

A sphere could be placed in a fish tank, to monitor the properties of
the water, or even the vital signs of any lifeforms within it. There could be a deployment in the sea, to monitor pollution levels or tidal flows and frequencies. Ok I can accept that this last paragraph may not require any roundness!

Anyone else have any ideas?