actually this got me thinking of a return to the original futurizations of a traditional home phone:
- By using a bluetooth headset can work as traditional phone
- Coupling it with a front or swiveling webcam, could bring videophone
- As a low powered computer can access web and apps.
- Can even incorporate wireless control over smart home devices - lights, appliances, etc.
- more size = more storage capacity, allowing it to hold the average user's entire media inventory, which could in turn be broadcast locally via dock or wirelessly depending on the setup

Thus becoming the defacto must-have home appliance. This may not be their current goal, but definitely my own wish - oh and a pony!

it is NOT news, that's why its here and not on...uhm...digg! - and there is another thread already for stating the obvious

in that case, over a century to go:
21:12:2112 (euro notation)
-F-

curiously enough, banks in mexico provide customers with either USB dongles, or them dingy's with the numbers that change. For the most part i hate the hoops one has to jump through and inconvenience about such systems, and the libertarian in me thinks that restrictions should increase in proportion to actual threats rather than perceived ones. So I'm torn between recognizing that robust security systems should be in place, and the ease of use that i've come to enjoy. Sadly i know which way the wind blows...and it blows!