XML is going to be the wave of the future, so says Bill Gates as the keynote speaker at the Fall Comdex get-together.
Web commerce is apparently the target for XML's implementation.
It's the world's smallest scanner. It runs through the USB port of your computer. You can hold it up to just about anything or use it like a normal flat bed, and it'll scan it. Of course, what you scan has to be itty-bitty. It looked just big enough to do a normal sized photo.