Following on from my previous post speculating that the netbook wave could lead to renewed interest in slates, there are a couple of discontinued devices I would really like to see revisited.

HP – word to the wise. 

• Take the TC1100 form factor.
• Put in an Atom processor.
• Add Capacitive Touch to the active digitize.

Instant success.

Another vendor that – I think – could do something similar is Motion.  You have the LS800 design, and it was a great design.  But it suffered heat problems.  Refreshing the LS range with an Atom powered machine would be great.

I got a sneak peek at a team doing some interesting development with touch technologies in Sydney on Thursday.

My friend Nick Randolph is the Chief Development Officer at nsquared solutions. He his heading up a team of developers working on development projects with a range of cutting edge technologies including Windows 7, multitouch, multipoint and Microsoft Surface.  

They are working on some really cool projects that are really going to show how multitouch can really change the paradigms we work with in user interfaces now.

It is exciting stuff and I am sure we will be hearing more form nsquared in the near future.  In the meantime you might want to check out Nick's teaser post about what they are working on and subscribe to the nsquared blog feed.