1 Still a bit stone-age (device good, UI not so much). Just wait until they get one working that can handle a game of 40K...

2 Well, you have to start somewhere!

3 Avatar, you mean Warhammer? That would be awesome!

4 I'm sold too.  Now all I need is $15,000 for the surface

5 First thing I thought of was "Star Fleet Battles" myself.  And "geekasm"

6 Mr Oosting, I like the way you think.  Particularly if it can a) handle the accounting paperwork for each individual ship without needing actual paper, and 2) handle to dice rolls for a full-on alpha strike involving many Phas-Gs that gets through a shield.

If it could do that, I'd almost want to marry it.

7 I'm something of a luddite, it seems.  Cool a gadget as it is, I couldn't ever see being able to use it for an RPG.  Maps have given way to narration.

8 What's really cool is when you start thinking about the underlying technology--a decent processor, a glorified webcam, really hot image recognition software, and a projector of some sort--and start thinking of what else you can do with that.

A table is just the simplest form factor (both for making the parts work and for conceptualizing its uses).  For those who have seen Stellvia, think about the computers they had, and how they used them.  Now, think about things like Project Natal.

The hardware may no longer be a limiting factor; it may all come down to what developers can imagine and write.

I suspect that within the next decade, the fancy interactive screen in Minority Report will be laughed at as an anachronism--after all, it required silly things like special gloves, and there was only one display.

9 You know, small & simple LCDs are not that expensive; nor are touch-screen overlays (think the size of a PSP or NDS/DSi.)  I don't know how touch multi-touch is but I bet you could whip up a D&D-playing device for a lot less than $15K.