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Rise of the tablets As if Apple's long-rumored Kindle-killer and the Microsoft Courier project weren't already harbingers, we've seen the emergence of the JooJoo (formerly CrunchPad), the Vega tablet, and many rumors of other devices including a Dell tablet/MID, all of which suggest a very tablet-focused CES. In fact, tablets could be the other side of smartbooks--keyboard-free devices with tiny processors that aim to do what smartphones like the iPhone already do, but on a larger scale. As an added bonus, tablets might be able to replicate or even subsume the widespread e-reader market