Touche! Mind you, you can get poachers coats to fit people of all sizes ;)

Wierd. I have an inside jacket pocket my iPad slides into. Makes it easy to carry it everywherre without a thought...

Yeah. I'm pretty sure this was covered years ago in the Lensmen series of books. They dealt with the problem through developing/copying teardrop shapes interstellar craft. In that case though, they termed it as a problem with the friction generated by all the interstellar particles.

It's already out there. EMC Symmetrix DMX Arrays.