peter said:
>   You may want to try and get a developers prototype of 
>   the handwriting based Mac PB that was "released" 10 years ago. 
>   No keyboard. Whoops ... did someone just mention 

nobody mentioned anything...       :+)

isn't that the idea that got gasse fired?

they're talking of putting voice-control into palms now.
so i think handwriting recognition --
already supposedly pretty good on the palm
-- could be left behind in the dust...

but i _am_ really interested in touch-screens, ones big enough to 
put a picture of a keyboard on it, and "type" comfortably on that...

i see these color touch-screens all over the place, such as
in bars and restaurants that are using them as cash-registers,
so i figure they can't be that expensive.  does anyone here know
how long it'll be before they are light enough and thin enough to
make a "tablet computer".  my ideal form factor is an etch-a-sketch.
we're already there in terms of regular screens (see the titanium),
i'm just wondering how long it'll be before touch-screens get there...

-bowerbird