waylon just pointed me towards vnc-lite on the ipod touch and showed how he could control his screen using it. He was dragging, pinching and zooming with his itouch like it was a safari webpage - I’m hoping if I could install this on my mums machine and connect to it using my iphone I’ll be [...]

Not totally, but in comparison to a video ipod. . . you’d be forgiven for thinking this was more than simply an ipod but it seems apple doesn’t want you to think of it in this way.
This is such a teaser product. Been using the iPod touch for a few days now and happily typing [...]