Watch Out Apple... Courier - Details of Microsft's Secret Tablet

Agreed, if they had a real device I'm sure the video would have been shot in a different way than. This is simply an animation of what it could look like, but I highly doubt it actually exists. Otherwise why have a computer animated hand do the actions, instead of a real one.

Or is this the new strategy, let's show something that looks like a fake when actually we have it.

Any advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

Umm, to be fair you can do most of that now. Take the bit with the photo guy who has the image preview, color wheel, histogram on his tablet; you can do that right now if you have a Canon EOS camera - as a matter of fact you can focus and twiddle the white balance etc. from the laptop without touching the camera if you want. I am looking at buying exactly such a system later this year (the camera does what I want, this computer connectivity is a bonus, albeit a welcome one).

Not that Microsft gets all the credit for that, but they've had tablet-capable Windows for ages now, and I don't blame them for the time it's taken the hardware manufacturers to catch up.

I did actually do some testing of some Origami devices when I was working for a large health care company. They were commercially available.

Our issues with these always came down to battery life. I think current processor/solid state drive/battery combos make an all day tablet device workable now though.

Just turn it upside down. Left on the right, right on the left. Problem solved.

Good point. Being left handed is rough... I smudge everything i write on.

Such an info pad would also be an ideal platform for taking my library of documentation, and my personally compiled tune-book. (Music notation.) The key here, is that there is a nascent market for a device on which users can compile self-generated content. Notes are such self-generated content. Moleskins and other kinds of journals and sketchbooks are another.