first, welcome to the board stevenP!! Lots of fun folks here, lots with decades of tech background so you should enjoy that side of the place.
You are dead on how devices like the Edge will be the future for a lot of applications. Obviously you bought into a first gen device. The hardware is mature enough but the integration from a communcation as well as software POV is likely going to have hurdles. I know I look forward to info you glean as you get to know the device. I would be interested to know if the EPD panel can function as the keyboard and the LCD side the output panel...for a lot of reasons that seems to make more sense to me than the other way around, but it should go both ways depending on the context at the moment.
Enjoy your new "toys"!!
