Ugly? Hmmm.... I guess everyone has differnt taste's. I personly find the iPod in white of all colors to be about as ugly as anything can get. Now in black that's another thing ;-) Anyway looking at this phone it occures to me that this screen layout would be nice for an eBook reader. Take two color OLED screens the size of a Palm TX screen, put a hinge in the middle and make that be where your AAA lithium-ion batterys are (or one side is electronics and the other perminant lithium-ion. Would give better protection from elements). Use only a 1/2 inch wide strip accross the bottom of each screen as a touch screen area and still part of the display for navigation & reconfigureble buttons depending on layout of book, links, bookmarks etc. Don't use any hard buttons and have the hinge be the on off switch & timer shut off to save power if left open. Or switch can be optical magnetic to keep case sealed (magnet on page 1 lines up with sensor on page 2 when closed) Less moveing parts and you may be able to make it water & sand proof that way. Coat the outside with solar cells to keep a trickle charge going to battery. Don't use any screws or other mechanical fasteners, use only high tech adhesives and split the curcuitry between both halfs evenly. That way it is evenly balanced while holding and can give the illusion of being much thinner when it's open. It may actualy turn out thinner if you use adhesives and ultra thin ultra rigid carbon fiber for the caseing. Uh... and the last features I can think of are to give it about 8GB of internal flash for media and a magnetic tipped cable that both charges and sync's the device via induction. That way I would have a full color eBook that has two pages, recharges itself via solar energy if need be, has only 1 moveing part (hinge), and can be read either in the bath tub or on the beach, two places I'd like to spend more time. Now that I think of it I'm copyrighting this right now!!!! LOL

Regarding conducting an orchestra... great minds think alike. And so do ours!!!! That was the first thing that popped into my mind the first time I saw an ad for the Wii. What would be great is the ability to load any CD you have and have an entire animated orchestra plus the player('s) displayed. Gamplay would be based on correct form. There could be tutorials that teach basic music theory and conducting. And an arcade mode for those that don't realy want or need to learn anything. Add some special effects via DSP that overlay the music by causing spacific sections of the orchestra to follow your lead insted of whats on the CD... out of time intro's FFF insted pianisamo, squeaking claranets, bizzare sound effects etc. It could turn out to be hillarius.

Insted of using the Wiimote it may be possible to rig two drum sticks with infrared LED's and have the software poll the wiimote repetedly and thus reverse the process by which it detects movement. You'd have to disconnect the 'sensor' bar. The Wii would then be able to process via some 3D math (triangulation for starts) where the two drum sticks are and most users that are percusionist would prefer to use real drum sticks. You could then either use them just in the air or drum on the carpet or a coffee table or whatever. The only way I can think of syncing it so it can tell when your on a down beat is to have two steps. 1) have the beat always be on a change of direction and 2) have a calibration step at the beigining where it requests you two swing first one then the other drum stick up,down,left, and right... I'm just speculating here. Someone tell me if my logic is wrong here regarding being able to reverse which component of the detection process can be stationary or moving. It does seem to me that either way should work because all the data is just a product of those two parts in relation each other. Except for motion detection which can be faked I belive by compairing sequential samples of triangulation. Anybody????

That's what I was thinking. Just use the back half of it as an office tricked out with about 20 19"LCD's, a central 60" Plasma, big honking desk, microwave, fridge, coffee maker, small bathroom and a nice recliner that turns into a bed & cut at least one window & door into it. Drop it wherever you need to be for the next 6 months, year, whatever. And you have a portible home base, office, data center, high end gaming system. :-)

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I don't have access to any HD where I live....yet.

Low resolution... However this is the thinest and nicest looking device i've seen so far. Sweet carbon-fiber finish. Almost anythings better then the plain old plastic in some old monochorme shade somewhere between black and white that almost every portable device comes in. Though I would prefer a nice stainless steel and mohogany finish with real metal and real wood....

Hey! I want this now for data, music and movies and forget that huge phyisicly oversized 12cm format for everything. I am sitting here looking at all the storage boxes I have and spindles I have for CD's & DVD's... and it just takes up to much room. Lets all go to the 8cm format and then the manufactures can keep uping the capacity to 200TB or whatever to there hearts content!

I don't have HDTV yet. BUt I want it!!

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