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@yokos, very interesting, isn't it?
IMHO WACOM is getting redicolous. I heared that a big chunk of the the costs of the iLiad (beside the eInk display) is in fact the WACOM "tablet" in it. I mean really, is it that expensive to produce? Comparable WACOM tablets cost 200$... I guess main part of it is, because WACOM have a patent on it, and nobody else is allowed to use the same technology... I can only hope the patent will run out in the next years, which will likely also mean a price cut on the tabletPCs and iLiads...
But maybe instead people should focus on alternative technologies. We had a pressure sensitive screen 20 years ago, that located finger pressure position exactly. I bought a cheap "electronic notepad" for 80$ some months ago... which had no gap issues I noticed (okay, this pen *had* a battery in it, but what about it, as long it works...) (in comparison to the iliad, this device required "real" paper to scribble on, but an electronic stored the data to be stored on the computer, the problem with this device was to keep in sync with the paper you have upon it, and the paper it thinks you are scribbling on...)
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