ever-before considered technologies in the epic Star Wars Sept-ilogy. Concepts of droids, light-sabers, hologram communicators, interactive 3-D games, floating speeders, hyperspace travel (certainly done before, but the streaking stars effect in-and-out of the "jump" was AMAZING) and cities in the clouds are but a few of the notable technologies George Lucas generously provided to an unsuspecting and gape-mouthed audience. I was personally inspired by the handheld Jedi PDA / communicator that Kwi-Gon Jin used in Episode 1, the one that could communicate with the ship, access the computer thru voice commands and display a hologram of the sleek Royal Naboo Spaceship that was used as collateral in a risky bet to.. well you know the story. It caused me to think that given current technologies, that device is not only plausible; I think we will see it in the next decade. Which brings us back to Dick Tracy's now not-so-special single-function wrist-radio, which today would certainly need to be much more than a "simple" 2-way radio. 75 years of technology advances have shown us that we can do better. It would be a multi-modal, voice-activated, multimedia-enabled, broadband internet-connected, interactive voice-video-data "super communicator." But, believe-it-or-not, we already have devices and communications networks that CAN do all that! Right now there are tens of millions of mobile, handheld devices that can offer multi-modal communications (WiFi, High-Speed Cellular Voice and Data, Bluetooth), support voice activated programming, are "always-on" with instant access to the World-Wide- Web an back-end applications, AND support video communications. The form factor is surprisingly similar to Capt. Kirk's communicator, but today is generically referred to as a "Smartphone." And thanks to PalmOne and Microsoft you can accessorize "a' la Dick Tracy" with an internet-connected wristwatch! Imagine how much more impressive Capt. Kirk's communicator could have been if it supported all the features of a modern Smartphone: it c