Tech Fogey is very fond of simple, aesthetically pleasing designs that actually work. Step forward The Stump. It’s a palm-sized rubber block with a notch that holds an iPad in two tilted positions or can be used as a rest for the optimum iPad typing angle. It’s quite weighty but needs to be to hold an iPad securely, especially on a plane or train where there’s jiggling about, turbulence and the like. Anything that’s iPad thickness or less, such as a Kindlee-reader developed by Amazon. The top-of-the-range Kindle Fire is a touchscreen tablet, not unlike an iPad, that costs significantly less than an iPad. Despite all the column inches devoted to e-readers and how they will take over the book business and destroy the demand for printed books, they are still nasty devices when compared with the aesthetic gorgeousness of a hardbacked book., other tablet or smartphoneOpposite of dumbphone. Device with which which to do pretty much anything except make telephone calls. The best smartphone handsets, such as the AppleFruit, record label, world dominator in the slick boy's toys department iPhoneCostly but beautiful smartphone made by Apple. The standard by which all other smartphones are judged. and Samsung Galaxy, are expensive (the iPhone 5 starts at £529) and to get a 'free' phone you have to commit to a 2 year contract. As we know, new phones come crashing onto the market all the time, so today's state-of-the-art handset will be seriously old hat long before that contract expires. can be accomodated in the slot. Among the super-tech mayhem of CES this was a chunky little lump of analogue joy. 
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