I want this...

"Looks like the netbook is no longer the immature, dim-witted cousin of the grown-up laptop: Sharp's new Mebius netbook is so shiny and clever it outclasses many "superior" machines. It's got a multi-touch LCD where its tiny, inefficient "netbook class" trackpad should be.

The rest of the Mebius NJ70A is recognizably a netbook: It runs an Intel N270 Atom CPU, has a 10.1-inch main display, Mobile Intel 945GSE Express chipset for video handling, Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi b&g, a memory-card reader slot, 1GB of RAM, and a 160GB hard drive. It runs Windows Vista Home Basic, is just 1.46kg in weight and its battery is stated to last three hours.  

But the trackpad is the true winner in this design. it's a 4-inch LED-backlit LCD with 854 x 480 pixels, so it's actually a bit like having an iPhone where a normal trackpad should be. Only better, since that device has just 3.5 inches of 480 x 320 pixels on its screen. The pad is both touch-sensitive, and stylus-sensitive, so as well as using it as a mere pointer-control device you can prod at it to operate the buttons of a virtual calculator, for example. Or write on it, and have your handwriting automatically recognized, draw on it for artistic purposes, or use it to annotate word-processed files in good old-fashioned "traditional" editing notes-style. In fact, it's hard to come up with suggestions for how this tech could be utilized, since so many that leap to mind"