If a cellphone can be controlled by a touchscreen and play videos, why can't your home VoIP phone? Soon it will be. A company called Open Peak is developing a touchscreen VoIP phone powered by Intel's Atom chip.

Scheduled to be sold through local cable and phone service providers - not found in stores - the digital picture frame-like base unit can be expanded by four-to-six standard candybar extension phones. You can either use Ethernet or WiFi to connect the system to your home network.

Not only will you be able to make VoIP calls, but you can watch movies, search and play YouTube videos, and perform a host of other multimedia content tricks via services provided by whatever provider sells you the phone. In our demo, a Laird Hamilton Maverick surfing video loaded from YouTube in just seconds.

The unit with the wired handset will be sold to hotels and other commercial establishments.