okay, so I am bored and a little disconnected from reality... I was thinking about trying to figure out how to web-enable an airpump (say, an aquarium pump) so that others with appropriate access could turn the pump on and off from the internet.
my thought it this...web-camming is easy. imagine if the person watching also had the ability to control the inflation. (I know there is a large propensity toward actual real life inflation...this could also be used to fill, say, a beachball tucked under a shirt over the belly).
I figured I'd let the group mull it over. if I come up with anything remarkable, I'll comment later.
This reminds me of something I saw on that show Real Sex or something to that effect, where a model had this chair that you paid to control over the Internet for a certain amount time for money, basically, the best way to describe it was a fuck chair, allowing you control a vibrator/dildo to go in and out and pan between several camera views. It looked crazy as shit when I saw it but its actually a pretty novel idea.
But for what you're talking about, easy as hell. All you would need would be a usb controlled power strip like here:
http://www.smarthome.com/4415/EcoStrip-2-0-USB-Controlled-Powerstrip/p.aspx
And a program that could probably easily written by someone far more literate than I that would enable someone to activate power to the pump over the internet.
This actually isn't that bad of an idea if you ask me ^^