[no_gravity]

Reminds me of Paul Graham's essay from 2010:

http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html

    Many if not most of the special-purpose objects
    around us are going to be replaced by apps running
    on tablets.

    I wouldn't be surprised if by playing some clever
    tricks with the accelerometer you could even replace
    the bathroom scale.

It's yet to be seen, how the bathroom scale will be replaced. But maybe the new touch sensitivity in phones (which PG includes in "tablets" in his essay) is one step into that direction.

[camillomiller]

Wow, pg is already at "delphi's oracle" levels already. Even banal passing comments that anybody with a minimum knowledge of technology could have formulated, are now read into like they were incredible prophecies...