What if your Palm had a decent camera, decent image editing software, and the ability to upload quickly?
...and what if you could annotate images/video in real time on your Palm screen, then lock down the image/video and upload it to a database (the Web)? Moblogging with tags essentially.
Perhaps Hawkins is re-inventing the Palm to be a vision-centric "Personal Experience Device" (P.E.D.). Basically moblogging with decent tagging/blogging software. The key to this experience would be the SOFTWARE, not the hardware. Just ask any Palm user who TO THIS DAY cannot get a decent image editor (Resco's image doohicky notwithstanding)
One nifty feature that Flickr.com uses is image tags. This is great for the Flickr website because you are manually adding metadata to images. Each user is basically building a database of images, something that most machines are incapable of doing. Now imagine people doing this in the field with a P.E.D. and building their online blog/life/journal/experience to share with family/friends.
Not too much of a stretch but this of course might not be what Hawkins is hocking...
BTW, the process of adding metadata manually to images is great for the Flickr company (Yahoo), which undoubtedly will change their terms of service some day and state "everything you've uploaded we have digital rights to." They'll carrot/stick it somehow with a $20 gift certificate to Appleby's but by then advertisers will be waiting to buy this stock photography that's so easily searchable (courtesy of you!).
