The Jackito Tactile Digital Assistant is for real? Roland Piquepaille is on the case

Pretty much everyone pegged this one for a hoax when we posted about it last week, but Roland Piquepaille, the future-trendhunting Frenchman who more or less broke the story, actually met with Novinit, the company behind the Jackito Tactile Digital Assistant, and says that this thing is for real. Or at least he was able to actually play with a prototype, which is basically a cruddy monochrome PDA that you use with your thumbs instead of a stylus. We're totally underwhelmed. Anyway, they're saying now that the first Jackitos (why do we keep wanting to write "Taquitos"?) will ship in three months.