My only word on the iPad.

A comment by Mark Atwood got me thinking. He was complaining about printers and it occurred to me that one of the reasons I'm so "meh" about the iPad is that I can't help but thinking that a lot of computer development is overly focused in one area. We get neat new interfaces like the iPad, but in the meantime, peripherals such as printers are as annoyingly prone to failure as they've always been. With the exception of wi-fi connections, it really seems like little practical development in peripherals has been done in 20 years.

MArk was saying he liked the idea of a steampunk printer, with brass gears and solid construction. I have to agree it would be worth to ppay the small fortune for such a printer, as long as it was more reliable than current models- and especially if it had an ink reservoir, so I didn't have to replace the ink cartridges every hundred pages or so..