Join us on our liveblogging page for up-to-the-second coverage of the Apple Tablet-thingy announcement. Xeni's in the reporter moshpit and will be liveblogging from the event. Raw feed: Xeni's twitter.
Update: turned post comments back on, since the Cover it Live chat widget turned into Cover it Died.
Update 2: 10 things to know about the iPad. (number one is that it's cheap.)
Here's a pic of the iPad:
Footage from outside the event:
Another look at the device itself: