"There's also hovering - but give me a button that says 'I'm touching the screen ONLY to move the mouse... not click"

- I just got a new fujitsu p1610 and butted heads with this problem. I solved it by using Autohotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) and disableing the "left mouse button" (which disables the click of the stylus) and mapping an available button to make the "left mouse button" instead.

i.e. (the p1610 has pageUp and pageDown buttons on the edge of the tablet) ...
Autohotkey script ...
lbutton::return
pgup::lbutton
pgdn::rbutton

There's a gulf between design for use and design for admiration. Like most gadget designers, Starck is concerned with the latter.

I think it's a contest between your post and mine.

The battery isnt that much of a problem if you had the option of a bigger battery connected by an umbilical. I dont see why it's so important that the weight of the batteries needs to be carried by your hands.

I think in design of these things there's very little focus in the way of user requirements and too much in the way of design for the display stand.

How would I change Windows Vista?

Well .. I'm quite happy with XP - it does everything I want and need.

So, if for some insane reason i had an OS installed that didnt provide any facility i needed and was inferior due to resource use, I'd wipe it and install XP.

we need devices like these so that our most precious asset (war supporters) need not go to the battlefield and test their principles in any realistic way. They need not be distracted from their valuable contribution of convincing us that war is entertainment.

windows is self bashing

It's the same old lifecycle ...

Company struggles and innovates through imagination and enthusiasm. Product stikes a chord with users. Everyone wants one.

Company rakes in cash and entrenches as a standard in the minds of users.

Company becomes used to being top dog. Becomes arrogant and lazy. I.e. money and technology replace creativity.

Company creates dull hi tech product.

Company becomes angry cos users are stupid and dont buy product.

Company hits doldrums.

whatever happened to the Transputer?

Whatever it was, Amiga did it first.

Probably.