Tablet PC works where keyboard falls short Video

Video description: Tablet PCs are gaining popularity in places where the pen is handier than the keyboard. We catch up with Stanford University researcher Jeff Leonard, who takes notes by hand and annotates images on his tablet PC in the genetics lab.

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