Watch the following video and let's discuss.

Why is it that the pinnacle of any technology is always when it can be fit inside a pen? Furthermore, if mobile computing was so great then why on earth would we still be using pens in the first place? Why in pluperfect hell would you want a super advanced computer only to run Windows XP on it? Does our future really involve us continuing to use an already woefully outdated operating system that is sure to be incapable of coping with the types of awesome stuff we will be throwing at it in 2010?

I want to see the meeting where they dreamt this up. "What could we combine with the most advanced mobile computer in the world to make it super awesome?"

"I know - how about a ballpoint pen!"

It's like inventing the internal combustion engine and then trying to integrate it into a horse.

I feel like this video should be the punch-line to a bad blond joke. "What would Dell invent if it were run by blondes?" It belongs with solar powered flashlights, helicopters with ejector seats, and submarines with screen doors.

The video is so bad that I was half expecting a blue screen at the end with credit card logos inviting me to call now so that I could order my very own penputer for 3 easy payments of $29.95!

Now if only they could build watches with calculators in them, I think we'd pretty much be caught up with Star Trek.