Researchers at Xerox Corp’s world-famous Palo Alto Research Center – onlie begetter of Ethernet and the concept of iconic graphical users interfaces, are playing with prototype computers the size of a pad of 3M Post-It Notes with a liquid crystal screen on which the user writes text. The pad includes a transmitter to send the writing to other computer tablets ranging in size from the notes to blackboards. The rationale behind the prototypes, says the Wall Street Journal, is that mundane items like pads and pens have so far proved to be the most efficient tools.
