Of course, those who argue that e-books are the real future, would suggest that the Espresso Book Machine, while impressively modern and forward thinking, is actually destined to become a relic before it has a chance to realize its potential. That said, for those looking for a more cost-effective alternative for printing and selling paper books--particularly the kind that only sell hundreds of copies--this "robot" may represent a much-needed lifeline.

As a bit of a relic myself - a designer who still longs for the days of xacto knives, rubber cement, real paper, light boards and negative scanners (but doesn't miss having to use dozens of zip drives to store everything on and computers that had to be restarted every 20 minutes because they were so overloaded with software and data) - I wonder about the future of publishing and feel a bit sad that e-readers seem to be the future.

A certain format of online video, called Flash, does not play on the Apple iPad.

While there are some workarounds for this, many Web sites are redesigning themselves, using a type of code called HTML5, so they will work on the iPad.

This whole piece is a nice concise explanation but I found this particularly interesting.

Apple has repeatedly stated that although it has been looking at the growing netbook market, it is not interested in releasing a low-end netbook product that produces an inferior user experience as current products do. Other sources have recently "confirmed" that an Apple netbook is in the works, but claim that it will not arrive until 2010.

"inferior user experience"? Oh come on Apple, I love ya but you need to take down the arrogance a notch. Considering how much my netbook using friends rave about their "user experience" I think you might need to take a look at WHY you can't produce a superior product for less than $800 (like maybe create one that DOESN'T have a touch screen? perhaps? *rolling eyes)