No need to run the gateway. Just want the client. If you haven’t guessed already, this image put the idea into my head:
I was thinking about running a custom build of Angstrom (a derivative of OpenEmbedded) on one of those touch panels, so anything our friends at Oracle could pass on about the tablet they fiddled with for Nuremberg would be extremely useful.
What this comes down to is that there is a glut of cheap (Chinese) displays and interfaces based on the BeagleBoard either already on the market or soon to be entering the market. If there is an easy way to get a client running on an ARM Cortex-A8 chip, then the sky is the limit for cheap touchscreen displays and tablet type devices.