If Microsoft allowed Windows 8 on ARM to have desktop applications this is what could have been.

This sounds very intriguing. I hope something comes of this. I'm not sure I care about this for a phone but for a tablet it would be awesome.
Imagine the Asus Transformer Prime running Ice Cream Sandwich as a tablet, and when docked its a full blown laptop.

Money shouldn't be able to buy patents or the sole right to produce something that is obvious, the same as it shouldn't be able to buy laws. The fact that they spent a lot of money on it means nothing.

I love using my Android wifi tethering at sporting events.
I create names offensive to the opposing team.

This is what PS3, Xbox360, Nintendo Wii are for.

we can only hope this happens

It was curved because of a wide angle lens.
With that lens you can see a curved earth from sea level if the center is above the horizon.
When the center is below the horizon you get a concave looking earth.
Didn't you notice how the earth appeared concave up there too?

You can frame and compose using an electronic viewfinder or even the back display.

As for DoF, I would argue that this is better to do electronically.
Most dSLRs have the aperture WIDE open when not shooting. They do this for focusing and so that there is enough light to your eye. When I press my DoF preview button on my Canon 7D the light is reduced and I see a very dark scene on anything f/4.0 and up. I would have to imagine that DoF previewing on a mirrorless camera would be better because they could adjust the exposure (ISO and such) in software so you can preview now only DoF but exposure at the SAME TIME.

Electronic wins over mechanical as far as battery life. The mechanical moving of the mirror, shutter, etc will soon be a thing of the past. Displays will require less and less energy while those motors will consume the same since they are already highly optimized.

That was a 1:1 port. Using classes you could make it even more clean by having a gpio class.

gpios = [GPIO(i) for i in xrange(17)]

for _ in xrange(5):
        for gpio in gpios:
                gpio.setValue(1)
                sleep(TIME)
        for gpio in gpios:
                gpio.setValue(0)
                sleep(TIME)

Python makes everything cleaner.

# Make the 17 GPIO file systems & set them to output mode
for g in gpiotbl:
        with open('/sys/class/gpio/export', 'w') as fout:
                print >> fout, "%d" % g
        with open('/sys/class/gpio%d/direction' % g, 'w') as fout:
                print >> fout, "out"

# light effect on buffers
for rep in xrange(5):
        for g in gpiotbl[:12]:
                with open('/sys/class/gpio/gpio%d/value' % g, 'w') as fout:
                        print >> fout, "1"
                sleep(TIME)
        for g in gpiotbl[:12]:
                with open('/sys/class/gpio/gpio%d/value' % g, 'w') as fout:
                        print >> fout, "0"
                sleep(TIME)

test_motor()
test_motor()

sys.exit(0)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX46Qv_b7F4

Looked up the E-P3. I question their use of OLED for color accuracy and longevity.

People interchangeably use DSLR instead of "camera with manual modes".
The fact that you're actually looking through the lens doesn't really matter much.
The SLRs design is because you couldn't look through film, so you had to have a mirror and a bunch of other things no longer needed in 2012.
Today you can look through film, because the film is a CCD.

All that said, I have a ton of Canon SLR equipment that I've bought over the past 2 years and I might start to regret it.

I had a Panosonic FZ5 and wound up getting the Leica Elpro 2 for macros. It is a 5 element close up filter. AMAZING.
I don't really use my Panosonic any more. I should probably sell it while it still has value. Looks like used ones are going for $99

I had one of those rollup keyboards for the novelty of it. It sucked.