Now This Thing Looks Cool

Via Engadget (and by way of graphic artist Christoph Niemann's Twitter stream), here's a glimpse of a new handheld device from Microsoft, codenamed Courier:

I have to say -- I'm already in love with this thing. Just the other day I was remarking to a friend that while all these online task-management apps certainly work, nothing truly beats the feeling of crossing a task off on a sheet of paper with a pencil. It's cool someone -- Microsoft, even! -- decided to modeled a device around that particular idea, and went several steps beyond at that. When I said the iPad was on to something, this is what I meant.

More details (and better photos) on Gizmodo.