So, yeah, I tried out that one product.

To answer your immediate questions:

1) Yes, but probably not in the way you are expecting.

The unit, as you might have guessed, looks flawless.

And while seeing a dog skateboard on the portable system is probably exciting to someone somewhere (actually, people were pretty engrossed in a video of a pet penguin with a penguin backpack), it was the multi-touch interface that evoked the most audible gasps. The hand-scrolling felt intuitive and reactive and immediately rendered every other computer imput device obsolete. Minority Report was the pop culture touch-stone that came to mind.

Yes, in the future, we will all be Tom Cruise.

2) Not really, but I am not the target demographic: namely, consumers with large amounts of disposable income. Still let's hope trickle-down theory applies to technology.

Also I hear the carrier's mobile service is atrocious.

3) Unlikely. Although one of the store's employees was so engrossed in the machine, he failed to help, let alone acknowledge, some of the customers. [Arguably, without the unit, he probably would have just been absentmindedly staring out into space.]

In the hands of most mortals with a modicum of control this shouldn't be a problem.

Ben, on the other hand.