Reminds me of Paul Graham's essay from 2010: http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html Many if not most of the special

Reminds me of Paul Graham's essay from 2010: http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html Many if not most of the special-purpose objects around us are going to be replaced by apps running on tablets. I wouldn't be surprised if by playing some clever tricks with the accelerometer you could even replace the bathroom scale. It's yet to be seen, how the bathroom scale will be replaced. But maybe the new touch sensitivity in phones (which PG includes in "tablets" in his essay) is one step into that direction.