Microsoft's Skinput

This story is from CNN: Microsoft's Skinput turns hands, arms into buttons

• Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University develop a prototype called Skinput
  
• The system turns a person's arm and hand into a virtual keyboard
  
• Users tap their fingers together and touch their forearm to send messages to gadgets
  
• The prototype won't be commercially available for two to seven years

How many iPads got sold today?

Bloggers all over the world are trying to measure how many Apple iPads got sold today (via pre-order). Brainstorm Tech on CNN.com is blogging that 120,000 iPads were sold today. Over 50,000 sold in the first two hours. Most are buying the Wi-Fi version instead of the 3G version. People are also buying all storage sizes (16, 32, and 64 GB) iPads.

"Apple has been able to generate over $75 million in revenue in one day on a product that 99.9% of purchasers haven't touched or for that matter, even seen in person," said Victor Castroll, an analyst with Valcent Financial Group. "And, we're still three weeks away. That is amazing."

What is the Apple "Media Pad"?

CNN has a story about the rumored Mac-Tablet (or Media Pad). You can call it what you'd like. I'm sure Apple will come up with a really clever name that has an "i" or "mac" in the name of the device. (iTablet, iNote, MacTablet, MacNote, MacPad, iPad, MediaMac, MacMedia). You can bet that it won't have the letters "PC" in the name, even if it ends up being an ultra-mobile PC.

So what do we know about this device so far? It will be larger than an iPhone, smaller than a MacBook, and it won't have a keyboard. Well, maybe we're not totally sure about the keyboard part yet. My gut tells me that it will be similar to these UMPCs like the Samsung Q1 and Q1 Ultra.