What these tablet devices need is a protective cover for when they are not in use, hinged to one edge to stop it getting lost.
Thinking about it, you could fit all, sort of, operating button thingys on the lid, much like a keyboard, and have the screen stand up at the back of it. Or have I just invented the netbook?
What is intuitive to somebody who has been a computer design frgeek for the last score of years, is almost certainly incomprehensible to a normal person. 297 pages sounds about right for converting geek intuition into human thought. I remember, many years ago, seeing an engineering handbook about the RS232 signalling protocol. When you come down to it, that has, basically, three wires, send, receive and earth, with the opportunity for designers to pile a few extras on. That handbook was almost 100 pages. It is/was the "serial" port on your old PC that early mice and modems would plug into, when 2400baud was considered as pushing the limits a bit.
Having said that, I have been messing with electronicery since leaving school, and programming a VCR was still a job to pass on to my kids.......
