The emoticons of the new millenium, iMood stickers can be as innocuous () as they are revealing (), a speck of insight () into a person, with a dash of TMI ().

Actually, while a lot of people are putting these on their web pages, automatically updated with their current mood whenever they visit iMood, I think this is just the beginning. I see a future where people start embedding the graphic in their .sigfile, so the reader knows, not how the person felt when they sent the letter, but how they feel now. You read their flamemail but notice that, at this moment in time, they're . Maybe you're going to make a pass at that girl at the mall (6 years from now), but your glasses heads up display warns you that she's .

taking it a step further, what if you did have a wired pair of glasses (or contacts, corneal implants, or straight up implants in your visual recognition system)? Wouldn't it be nice if everything had tooltips? Stare at something or someone for more than a second or two and:

Now imagine that this overlay is the only computer interface you ever use...