The Apple iPad is real!  If we adopt this eReader and multi-use device we may ditch our keyboards in the not too distant future.

The new device will have to be far better than the laptop and smartphone at doing important things: browsing the Web, doing e-mail, enjoying and sharing photographs, watching videos, enjoying your music collection, playing games, reading e-books. Otherwise, “it has no reason for being.”Apple’s answer: the iPad.

via Live Blogging the Apple Product Announcement – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.