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The Palm Touchstone<\/a> is a great product, one of those "Why didn’t I think of that" kinds of things that seems small and insignificant but actually changes the way you feel about everyday stuff – like charging your phone. It’s in my own Top Five Pre Accessories<\/a> and it should be in yours too.<\/p>\n It recently won Editor’s Choice as "Peripheral of the Year" in the Engadget Awards<\/a> (thanks to everybody who sent that in!). Congrats to the team at Palm for creating a great accessory that’s well-thought-out all the way down to the micro-suction material on the bottom<\/a>.<\/p>\n Were you aware than the Touchstone is also eco-friendly? PreCentral reader Otto plugged his into a Kill-A-Watt meter:<\/p>\n I always assumed that, like my induction charger on my electric toothbrush which draws 1W of power all the time, the Touchstone was an energy waster despite its convenience. Further, I assumed the induction charger to be inefficient and thus even more wasteful. Well, having tested it with a Kill-A-Watt meter, I’ve learned that it actually draws *zero* watts until a phone is placed on it, and then it only draws a mere 4 watts<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Impressive, no? It has us wondering what’s next for Touchstone. We’ve asked this once before<\/a> but thought we’d bring it up again, especially now that we’ve seen what a little clever thinking can do – the Nexus One Dock<\/a> has a nice dock mode and Bluetooth for audio. The Touchstone has some clever behavior when it comes to phone calls<\/a>, but what else could it do?<\/p>\n So what are the top three things you’d like to see in the future of Touchstone<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n