Ok, so this might be construed as a little off topics, but this tablet is using advanced wireless feeds to send the video signal and pointer controls to and from it's base unit. I reckon the $700 you save from the box in the article would go at least some of the way towards this kind of tech.

Yikes. $695 U.S. Not for home users, I see. I use CDN $20 worth of extension cables to stick my noisy computer in the closet, 8 feet away. I'm always keeping an eye out for solutions that will handle resolutions over 1024x768 or let me stick the box in the basement. Back to dreaming about next-generation wireless, I guess.

Seems cool, but you couldn't really use the wire in your walls unless each outlet was directly connected to one another. It just uses cat-5 as an extension cable between two boxes.

Now, a box that would do that over a LAN using TCP/IP might be cooler.