The coming revolution in input/output devices is what's on the DSBPI Tech Analyst team's mind today. Well, at least we hope there is a coming revolution. The current laptop/tablet PC paradigm, replicated to some extent with the PDA/Blackberry world, will hopefully be replaced by projection technology, so that the keyboard and the monitor will both be virtual.

Laptops are currently constrained by screen and keyboard dimensions -- take a look at the 17" Apple Powerbook -- by necessity, it is ... 17"; and has what seems to be a moat of plastic around the keyboard to make up for all that extra screen space.

But with the growth of companies like IO2 Technology and VKB, along with the ongoing miniaturization of hard drives (think iPod), one can imagine a small box, with two tiny projectors (one for screen and one for keyboard) liberating the CPU from a physical human interface; removing the constraints of liquid crystal and plastic.