I thought most of the "hits" on this list were really misses. Is a hit a financial success or a good product? Windows 3.1 was a marginal knock-off of a good OS. Media center is a horribly designed slow hierarchical mess (admittedly with a smaller feature set that makes it less confusing ). Windows CE has been the reason many phones are slow, suck batteries, and look like a desktop crammed into a phone, complete with Start button.

Sure Microsoft made money of it's "hits" but it doesn't mean it's ever set the bar high in terms of quality or the user experience (office 2007 being the one exception in this list). If we made a list of products we actually enjoyed using over the last 20 years I don't think many of these would be on it.

I just bought one of these:
Fujitsu LifeBook U810
http://www.amazon.com/Fujitsu-FPCM21342-LifeBook-U810-Mini-Laptop/dp/B000W8ZRYO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1212723292&sr=8-2
which is close to the form factor it should be (A5-A6 paper size). I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems to be getting good reviews.

Also, in the department of "what should exist" as opposed to what "does exist", here's what you should be able to buy:
http://mobilecommunitydesign.com/2007/07/re-thinking-notepad.html

How about something really original... like a dishwasher! Seriously - I want a robot that actually takes my dirty dishes, soaks them, puts them in the dishwasher, runs the dishwasher, and then puts the clean plates back on the shelf. Basically what the dishwasher always should have been. Please iRobot, you know you want to!

Uh, Dan. It's an art project, not a real product. It's supposed to make people reconsider their use of mobile phones and the social impact on others. I quite like the concept and the execution of the prototype.

from a human factors standpoint, this is a really good idea. Even with keyboard shortcuts the mouse is still needed for many tasks. The only thing I'm wondering about is how rapidly you can switch the right hand from keyboard to mouse mode (input device acquisition time) and whether the mouse works as well as a normal one in terms of moving and clicking. Very creative product though - I'd like to try one.

i'd like to know what the coverage is for this program. They've actually got buildings in that shot. So do they update the program every time a building get's demolished? And what about when you're outside a main urban area? AND what are they doing about urban canyons? Is the combination of cell positioning and GPS really accurate enough to pinpoint somebody accurately enough to give them a useful 3D view???

ooooooh!!!!

bring on the qwerty revolution!