While killing time at Atlanta airport, I spotted the new oversized illustrated edition of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code at Simply Books in terminal C. I haven't read the book yet, and having an edition with photos and drawings of the artifacts and locations in the story would make everything more vivid in my mind.

Not wanting to pay the full $35 price and carry the heavy volume home, I decided to shopshift it. I just used my Sidekick to load the Amazon Mobile site so I could look up the book by ISBN number. The product page came up and I simply selected my office address via the dropdown menu and pressed the One Click(TM) button. On takeoff from the airport 90 minutes later, I looked down on the Atlanta skyline knowing that someone down on the ground was pulling the book to load on a UPS truck and that it would be on my desk by Tuesday.

I dream of the sure-to-arrive day when I can take a phonecam photo of the barcode of a book or DVD, submit it to a server app that extracts the ISBN from the photo and then talks to the Amazon API to return the product page and One Click button to buy.

- mike lee - atlanta airport