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I'm counting my phone (4.25" diag) as a small tablet. I don't have a bigger one myself, but I see them, especially at parties, in the hands of children. Their ubiquity is growing.

I can see room for more devices, fitness bands, etc., but as sensors rather than media. I'm just not seeing them beat the form of the book, magazine, tablet.

I mean wrist-watches kind of overloaded their interface after time, date, and dive depth. It was technically possible to put a microfilm reader in a wrist watch, but a paper copy of National Geographic was just so much nicer.

I'd be willing to try a heads-up travel guide, but a cheap and light one in my pocket might be all I need.




OK, maybe running with a HUD would be fun, current pace, previous pace on course ....


Maybe with a "ghost" feature like from Mario Kart where you can see a representation of your previous runs on the course and compete with them.




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