SoC: Stuck in the mud or Charging ahead?

As an application for future systems-on-chip, consider the 3G-cellphone wristwatch. Functionally, it would combine a cellular phone with an integral antenna, microphone and speaker. A small color display with a touch-pad interface and a miniaturized color camera capable of generating low-resolution video or moderate-resolution still images would be likely user interfaces. And, e-mail with multimedia attachments, instant video messaging, audio and movie entertainment playback and interactive games would be other built-in applications.