@yourname: "The closest thing yet to a real-life Star Trek PADD device has, after much
rumour and speculation, finally been released by Apple.
<url>
ti_touch_ipad_tablet_device.html
Expect lots of Star Trek-looking inspired applications to appear on the App
Store."
    @sdlitvin: ""Your Name" <email_address> wrote in message 
news:hjq6v0$gae$<email_address>:
<quote>
BTW, in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," there is a short scene in 
which the two astronauts on the spaceship Discovery are watching a BBC 
program on their "Newspads."  As Arthur C. Clarke described it in the 
novelization, the Newspad was a flat-panel device that could display 
newspapers, TV programs, etc.
So yes, this is one sci-fi device that has finally come true.  (In the 
case of "2001," it came true nine years too late; in the case of Trek, 
it came true two centuries too early.)
Steven L.
<email_address>
Remove the "NOSPAM" before sending to this email address."
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