Walt Mossberg: Hey, I am Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal. I am here at the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley and what we are doing is talking about what is hot, and what is not in personal technology this holiday season. And I have just got a handful of the things we are going to show here to talk about. And I this year decided to bring a few things that I think are representative f some interesting trends in tech products. This is probably the most anticipated one. It may look like an Amazon Kindle, but it is the Barnes and Noble Nook. And you can see that one of the big differences is that in addition to the reading screen here, it has a color LCD screen where you can scroll through the covers of books and navigate really the whole device and you will notice it does not have a physical keyboard and so forth. And this is going to begin to be delivered next week, and Barnes and Noble is obviously very excited about getting into game against Amazon and there are a whole bunch of other of these e-readers coming. This is another interesting trend in personal technology, which is really digitizing healthcare. And you know that there is a diabetes epidemic in this country. There are many millions of people with diabetes. They check their sugar everyday with the glucose meter. These things really have no connection or virtually no connection that is usable to computers or the cloud. This is from Bayer. It is a glucose meter that is USB. So, it has a screen, actually has a more attractive color screen than a lot of these things. You test your blood with a test strip. Many people watching this will know what I am talking about, but in this case you then just plug it into your computer, it uploads it and it also has a way to share it with your doctor. This is another trend, which is putting the Internet and technology into your car in a way that it's, at least supposedly safe. This is called the iLane. It reads your e-mail to you from your smartphone and then it takes your dictation of a reply and sends that back as an email so that you are always keeping your eyes on the road and hands on the wheel. I am not going to say you are not distracted because we all know that the experts are saying you could be distracted anyway, but at least you are not trying to type. And finally, this is another trend, which is taking devices and moving them away from the two big operating systems, Windows and Mac OS. And this is to my knowledge the first Netbook to be sold in the U.S, which has Android which is the Google Operating System for mobile phones on it. Now, it dual boots, it has Windows as well. It doesn't just rely on Android, but as you can see from the screen those of you who have seen pictures of or who own Android phones this is Android. This little thing up here, if you click on it will take you back to Windows, where there are obviously are more applications, they are really designed for this form factor. I do not think Android works particularly well on this to be honest, but I think it's an interesting side of a trend. So, that is a kind of a sampling of what we are showing here this year and again, I am Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal and all things digital and thanks for having me.
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