Lapdock: From avant-garde to awful
What a difference a year makes. A year ago, I was <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/test-driving-the-motorola-atrixs-lapdock-072">intrigued by Motorola Mobility's Lapdock</a>, a laptop without a brain into which you plugged a Motorola Android smartphone to run it on a full-size screen, with full-size keyboard, trackpad, SD card slot, and USB and HDMI ports for access to USB peripherals and mirrored screen display to a TV or monitor. A year ago, I saw the Lapdock as a wonderful innovation that presaged an era in which a smartphone is your main -- and perhaps only -- computing device, plugging into resources when needed to scale up to a desktop PC.