Though a good couple years away from consumer use, IBM’s Meta Pad could be an amazingly convenient piece of hardware.

The core of the Meta Pad is just slightly smaller than a typical PDA, but holds a 800-MHz processor with 128-MB RAM, a 10-GB hard disk drive, and an 8-MB 3D-graphics chip.

This little thing could then plug into a docking station to become your desktop computer, or plug into a handheld touch screen. All my various documents and resources accessible through one little machine…can’t wait.