Similarly missing, technology that was going to scroll text automatically by tracking your eye movements down the screen.

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Scroll, text and keep connected without having to take off your gloves.

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On the Juke, for instance, a click on the phone's scroll wheel brings up a text messaging screen, a calendar or a picture function, just as if a finger were pressing the keys of the real phone.

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It's difficult to move the text back without touching the screen, something Smart Scroll is supposed to eliminate.

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If you really want to cut through huge blocks of text, you're still better off using the scroll wheel on your mouse.

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The BlinkFeed design is attractive, showing photos and text in a Flipboard-like mesh that you can quickly scroll up or down.

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But a pint-size scroll about 12 inches tall, with elaborately styled Hebrew text, "can take a few more months of work, " he says, explaining how the smaller characters require a slower, more careful hand.

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