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I think the market is different today, a decade or more ago no one knew what format / product types would be popular. In terms of PDA's the most import (in my view) product must be the Apple Newton, although a commercial failure, it paved the way for the cheaper Palm Pilot those design is the template of almost all modern PDA's. Psion where great though, I loved the Series 3, but at that point (rather than building the series 5) they needed a big leap, and in the end they got over taken by Palm.

In my view all mobile technology is a battle between size and functionality. For example the recent success of the Asus Eee PC is in large part due to the fact it is a fully functional at the bare minimum size to retain usability.

I read the article vis Bill Gate's interview on the Beeb a few weeks back, and I feel (like the table he demonstrated) there will be quiet a few new "quirky" devises to make it to prototype stage using lots of different HCI's. We computer scientists hunting away for a more elegant method of communicating with our machines (though IMO the keyboard will be main method until well after I'm no longer here)

I've not seen to many computing devices fail (bar the frequent efforts for VR products). Which goes to show, at the end of the day, computers are about the inside, our interface with them is a trivial matter (though probably mastered best by Apple).

One general, rather than product specific, idea I've never seen really work is that of Neural Networks and parallel processing attempts to reconstruct a computer that works like we do. I'm sure lots of us have (at some point) been lectured on how they would be "the future", doesn't really seemed to have panned out like that.

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\begin{rant}

I think the market is different today, a decade or more ago no one knew what format / product types would be popular. In terms of PDA's the most import (in my view) product must be the Apple Newton, although a commercial failure, it paved the way for the cheaper Palm Pilot those design is the template of almost all modern PDA's. Psion where great though, I loved the Series 3, but at that point (rather than building the series 5) they needed a big leap, and in the end they got over taken by Palm.

In my view all mobile technology is a battle between size and functionality. For example the recent success of the Asus Eee PC is in large part due to the fact it is a fully functional at the bare minimum size to retain usability.

I read the article vis Bill Gate's interview on the Beeb a few weeks back, and I feel (like the table he demonstrated) there will be quiet a few new "quirky" devises to make it to prototype stage using lots of different HCI's. We computer scientists hunting away for a more elegant method of communicating with our machines (though IMO the keyboard will be main method until well after I'm no longer here)

I've not seen to many computing devices fail (bar the frequent efforts for VR products). Which goes to show, at the end of the day, computers are about the inside, our interface with them is a trivial matter (though probably mastered best by Apple).

One general, rather than product specific, idea I've never seen really work is that of Neural Networks and parallel processing attempts to reconstruct a computer that works like we do. I'm sure lots of us have (at some point) been lectured on how they would be "the future", doesn't really seemed to have panned out like that.

\end{rant}