For those who have been following this thread. I have some further news and updates
The great news is Rob has managed to secure major investor funding, and I mean
MAJOR which is going to really accelerate the whole development process.
It is getting serious now folks!! As if it wasn't already
The first prototype hardware has been delivered and Rob has this assembled and provided a brief demonstration at the investor meetings. So cool, it even had a clear perspex cover so the inner workings were all revealed!! He did not take up my suggestion to add some blue LED's as well (':P')
Glad to say it performed admirably the first time out in something extremely close to the finished product. A few hardware (case only) glitches caused by manufacturer error in hole and screen printing placement, but these will be sorted in prototype II coming very soon.
Software and OS development is right on track, and the final database of included software is being compiled..No firm decisions, apart from Sonar Essential, on the software apps has been made as we are still in the evaluation (final) stage here...
The OSL exclusive sound library is coming together nicely, and some audio demos initially (video a bit later) should be posted soon. I cannot give a day or date and it won't be tomorrow

, but soonish...as well as some screen shots of how it is all looking.
Well that's about it for now. More, when more can be revealed!!
Cheers
Dennis