Saturday, 12 July 2003

Web Pads

Web Pads

A running theme of this blog (for the next few years at least) is likely to be the search for the perfect domestic wireless web device. I'm currently writiing this sat in the garden on a very hot day using my IBM Thinkpad laptop over a Wi-Fi link to our broadband connection. But the laptop is a very intrusive form factor. What I really want is an A4 "slate", just a display, a stylus and the w-fi card (oh and the ability to handle streaming media and plug-ins, but no other local storage. At the moment these devices are £1000 plus, and too heavy and too short on battery life (in fact I've just had to retreat in doors to a power point to finish this post. We'll see how I get on.


***Imported from old blog***

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