Katie Hafner is getting a little silly with the reporting these days ...

Mr. Smith is all too aware of his wife's mounting disapproval of his routine and suspects that a laptop-in-bed ban could be imminent.

"You kind of want the bed to be a sacred space," she said.

Mr. Anderson, a senior researcher at Intel Research, has found more technology ending up in the bedroom.

"It's kind of like a vibrating 24/7 secretary."