How does a device such an iPad change things?

• It is both highly personalised/synced and easily imaged/configured for content
  • iPads setup via Web page/Safari + configured WiFi router
• The flourishing ecosystem furnishes iPad labcoats (?)
  • Both human and iPad are clad with protection when they enter the wet lab!
  • Can be used with a lab gloved hand or a stylus
• Changes the interaction metaphors to:
  • gestures,
  • voice (spoken OPSIN for chemical names),
  • motion,
  • location.
• In the near term future, 3D stereoscopic viewing without glasses in 2012?