the ultimate gadget: 2-28-2010

I have in my head an idea of what the best and most perfect gadget would be like. Sometimes, it gets updated as I learn of new cool things that people are making and I'll want them incorporated into the Ultimate Gadget. The current list of features is:

- A big, clear, very well-lit touch screen, with that nifty multi-touch navigation

- The ability not only to write on the screen, but to convert that writing into text in a format compatible with Word or Open Office docs

- A webcam and a mic, and the ability to use them online and as a regular phone, maybe the way Skype works on both platforms

- The hugest harddrive I can get

- USB ports all over the place, and the ability to dock it to another computer, as well as adding dongles and flashdrives

- A gyro so the screen knows which way the thing is pointed, and the ability to play games that way

- Bluetooth, RF and WiFi; maybe also 3G, but that's not really necessary if it has full WiFi-- at a fast and reliable speed

- Natural-looking and working book and magazine reading

- A stand to prop it up when I don't want to hold it myself

- An on-screen keyboard that can be typed on like a regular one, or switched to the edges and split to be thumb-typed while held like a phone

- The usual helper-functions: clock, timer, schedule / calendar, calculator, address book, a weather widget, all those sorts of things, and all as simple and useful as possible

- Apps. All the apps.

- A really long battery, even when using the interwebs.

- Real word processing

- Maybe a decent camera, or at least a way to interface with a camera, like a plug or a card reader. (but, really, a DS can take pictures so why shouldn't this?)

- Really good video playback for watching movies, and an optical drive that will play them in the least amount of space possible

- On-the-go TV-- and I mean real TV, not the way Verizon only offers clips and interviews and trailers

- GPS, and the ability to find you when you're lost, as well as being able to tell you the closest restaurant and suchlike

Random things that would be nice:

- A barcode reader, or some other visual-recognition thing that lets you scan something and it brings up the data on it

- Voice activation

- A portable scanner, or camera resolution equivalent to it

- An assistant that actually helps

- Screencaps

- A recognized and well-respected OS