How to bring back the pocket protector!

[bkbroil]

So, you have a drawer full of pocket protectors and you wonder "Should I throw these out or will they ever come back in style?" Well -- Your prayers have been answered!
NEC Pushes the Envelope with a New Design for Computing

The next generation of pocketable computing is based on these pens and they're called P-ISM. (At least that what NEC is trying to figure out. )
The design concept uses five different pens to make a computer. One pen is a CPU, another a camera, one creates a virtual keyboard, another projects the visual output and thus the display and another a communicator (a phone). All five pens can rest in a holding block which recharges the batteries and holds the mass storage. Each pen communicates wireless, possibly Bluetooth.
Will this ever make it to the "Real" world? What do you think?

[Brad Isaac]

Will this ever make it to the "Real" world? What do you think?

Well, I will never say never, but it seems to me there have been quite a few "pen" based gadgets, including laser pointers, scanners and watches. I could be wrong but it seems like a pen is just a pen, trying to make it into a computer or television really doesn't make much sense to me.
What I like about the article is the idea of separating components and connecting them wirelessly. Like a computer with a processor, RAM, soundcard, graphics cards, etc. all connected wirelessly,