I suspect this will take about five more years and will coincide with the availability of cheaper memory and the monstrous hard disks needed to capture huge picture files, which will eventually approach 100MB and someday get even bigger. Camera makers are still freaked by the incredible success of the Sony Mavica. Now that the Mavica has the ability to capture some fair MPEG video clips, everyone is worried sick. That development will seriously spook Kodak and Olympus. And they can pop these disks into their machines.
Nobody has the new drive.
But because of the backward compatibility of the HiFD, the proposed camera will be able to use both standard and HiFD disks and will encourage people to upgrade their desktops to the HiFD drive. U biometric fingerprint ID system looks like a gimmick. But in fact, it is one of the coolest little products I've seen in years. U is so cool that my son ran off with it and uses it routinely to log on to various online accounts. This thing works as a password intervention device.