$99, 64MB USB keychain with a built-in, no-driver 640x480 camera.

When all this technology (PDAs, Phone, Camera, portable harddrive, and lets throw MP3 playback in there as well) comes together in one place… oh my.

I like the having everything seperate deal.

I've got my USB keydrive, I can throw it on the floor, have it bang around in my briefcase, no drivers.

I've got my iPod, it's small, it's got my addresses, schedule, software backup, no drivers.

I've got my camera, it's small, it's metal, it takes a beating, no drivers.

I've got my phone, it was 19 bucks.

I like them seperate, I don't want them togeather because, each has it's own role and it does it's role great, but when you put things togeather you always loose functionality.

Right now, computers and consumer electronics are at about the 1960s military jet stage of thier evolution.

F-104s worked great as an interceptor. F-4s worked great as a fighter-bomber. F-105s worked great as a fighter.

When you started to put bombs on F-105s you had a crappy bomber, when you tried to intercept MiG-25s over the Golan you had a crappy interceptor, and when you tried to do all three things with the ATX/F-111 it didn't work at all.

Right now, there is only one company that could maybe pull off an all-in-one device like this, it's Apple. Yea I'm an Apple fanboy, but that's cause they actually have decent engineers and decent designers. All I have to do is look at my iSight and my iPod to realize that.

I don't think the hardware and interface engineering is to the point where anyone can put out a good, robust all-in-one consumer electronics device.

Palm's Zire 71 is real close to that (everything but the phone) I feel compelled to point out. Really like that thing.

That said, what I really want it a nice little sub-space pocket to hold all my stuff in without any unsightly bulges in jacket.

20 years of playing DnD and it's not the fireballs or curses I wish for: it's the Bag of Holding.

(Better yet: a portable hole -- you could set up a cot in there and nap :)

My keychain USB saved my bacon after the Great Hard Drive Crash of "03. Get. One.

I had one.

Had. Somehow seemed to have lost/misplaced it during the trip to South Dakota (which makes me paranoid in any number of ways, since I don't remember what was on it).

Need to get a replacement.

I had a 64MB keydrive. Lost it. Looked everywhere. Bought another one, first one reappeared.

Palm and Viao are exactly the point to my tirade about no one "being" there yet when it comes to intergrating a bunch of systems into one piece.

I hate 'em.

I'm with Clovis in wanting separate tech. The ideal form factor for a phone is different than that for a PDA.

Now, I could see having a digital phone or a PDA doing digital camera work -- if they held the same megapixils, had the optics, etc.; the current ones don't.

But a Bag of Holding -- I'd be so there. Though I'd settle for a Flight Ring, instead.

I've always liked the Wand of Wonder, saved my ass once at 7th level against Iuz coming down to smack my bitchass down.

It's all about the UI for the different devices.

Like my iPod, I've got last years with the center button, wheel and circular direction buttons, the new ones go for a line of the direction buttons.

Press the center to play, to pause, hold it to turn it off.

Rio and the old Iomega clik! drives were way less intuative to use from my experiance.

My digi still camera, it needs buttons, panels, knobs, extending lens to work, toss that in with an MP3 player and it'd be a frankenpod.

I have a Sony Clie with a camera on it and of course my memory stick works with all of my other Sony products, but uh, that little cam is so cute...