Manufactuers can now web-enable their newest devices thanks to the XPort, and its smaller than your thumb. It has 10 Base-T/100 Base-Tx Ethernet connection speed. It includes a bunch of protocols including, TCP/IP, Telnet and HTTP. There's a built in webserver to serve both webpages and Java applets. Most importantly, it has optional 128-bit AES Rijndael encryption.

You can check it out here:
http://www.commanderx.com/productinfo.html
Make sure you read the fact sheet at the bottom, its the most informative part.

Here's a good AES fact sheet for those of you who aren't too familiar with it (like me):
http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/aesfact.html

Hopefully this will lead to all of our favourite items becoming (securely) web-enabled!