When you talk ultra portable notebooks, you also mean crappy touch pad or nipple. The touch pads on standard size notebooks are crap, then ultra portables make them a quarter the size. The only other choice is to carry a mouse, but even the smallest mouse can be a inconvenience.
Some genius may have a solution to my woes, and that is with an inflatable mouse. The concept is called the Jelly Click, and has to be manually blown up to work. When deflated the device is so small, that it can slide between the screen and the keyboard on majority of notebooks (probably not the Air).
Very interesting concept which will hopefully become reality (expect for the silly looking buttons). I could even see hackers in the future filling it with other things, e.g. the 12 monkey virus or radon (heavy inert radioactive gas).
For more info, click over to Gizmodo.
The Accords of old have been impressive, but nothing like the new HF-S concept created by Honda Access America Inc. It is a engineering marvel with the shape created to make a vortex type of effect, which enhance high-speed aerodynamics and engine cooling, plus special carbon fiber panels which have been shaped to decrease negative speed force around the wheel arches. Little else is know about the car, but for now you can click through to see a whole much of pictures.
For more info, click over to the Paul Tan Blog.