Mar 7, 2006 7:50 PM

Jefferson Y. Hahn at Etech06

It's not the touch-screen that impresses me so much

as those applications. Look at those liquid hand-manipulable

"blobjects." And the photography management.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-y3ZNaCqs

Sometimes YouTube is really useful, assuming you've got the broadband

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