A quick update on the Wacom Inkling: According to Amazon user Michael J Hunter, Wacom has informed him that the Inkling will only be available through the Wacom website, and Amazon:

I even tried to email Wacom and ask what the deal was and they just gave me a generic response about how they haven’t received the product yet. This is the actual response they sent me. “Hi Michael, Thanks for your email and I understand. Mid October is what I’m told but we are still waiting for it to land. The only (2) sources for the unit will be the Wacom web store and Amazon.com. F.Y.I..Pre-orders are an option through Amazon if you’re interested.”

As of this writing a release date has not been set, so pre-order is probably the best option to get in line for the quickest possible delivery.

Not the only ten worth voting for, just the first ten that caught my eye (based on a few slightly biased search terms) in the Panel Picker:

1. Demystifying design: Fewer secrets, greater impact: To be presented by former iXL co-worker, accomplished Lean UX-er, and all around smart guy Jeff Gothelf: “Even in today’s experience-obsessed world, Design is often perceived as a tactic to simply “make things pretty.” To combat that oversimplification, designers often shroud their work in a mysterious cloud of specialized tools and jargon. This mystery gives designers (of every sort – visual, UX, interaction, et al) a false perception of value, uniqueness and control over their process and work. In actuality, this self-imposed mystery drives divisions between designers and their teams. To lay foundations for greater collaboration and inclusion, designers need to stop looking at their work in terms of “trade secrets” and start opening up about their process. Through this transparency, the cloud lifts and the true value of Design becomes clear while designers are revealed to be the indispensable product people they truly are. “
2. How to Design a User Experience Designer: from Jeff’s co-worker Will Evans, “Unlike traditional talks, this will drawn from a real life case study of a young recruiter who decided they were passionate about product design and specifically wished to learn to become a UX Designer.”
3. The connected company: an inventory of the possible: “As companies grow in size and complexity, they become less productive per capita. But as cities grow, they become more productive, by almost every measure. Why?”
4. The Not So Allied Forces of Social TV Comedy: Will Saunders of the BBC, “In this talk, we’ll show you what the Mother Country has done in social comedy, featuring voxpops from the best of British comic talent old and new.”
5. Second Screen and Social TV: Which way from here?: Panel organized by Bill Gannon from EW, “This session will discuss the state of the second screen, why it’s important and what it will take to finally make interactive TV a reality. “
6. No Jetpacks? the State of Wearable Technology: Two dueling technologists will tackle the state of wearable technology. Looking at iconic examples of wearable tech in popular sci-fi through to anthropological behavior patterns, miniaturization, and ubiquitous computing, they’ll explore why the world doesn’t look like Blade Runner, the conditions needed for wearable technology to be accepted, and how the world might look in a few years and beyond.
7. Your Mom PWNS: The Secret World of Casual Gaming: Organized by Diedre Hart of Verizon, “Every season we hear about new hard-core gaming systems and games, yet we miss the hidden reality of gaming: the majority of gaming is casual and performed on PCs and handsets – by adult females, especially moms. There’s a lot we can learn about the “gamification” of business and life from this secret world of female gamers.”
8. Global UX: beyond language, location and culture: A solo proposal from James Offer of the innovative BBC World Service, “Whether your users are in Los Angeles, Lahore or La Paz, how can you help build a universal experience where location, language and cultural differences are invisible, allowing the user to focus on their goals — whether its buying software, booking a hotel or signing up for a new social platform? From interface design and typography to technical tricks, learn how to engage your global users and give everyone a seamless user experience regardless of language, location and culture. “
9. Hey, you kids! Get off my Cloud!: From another ex-iXL’r, Jay Cuthrell, VCE: “Ah, the ‘cloud’. Is there any more overused and overloaded term in use today? Does cloud only mean companies like Amazon? Google? Apple? Microsoft? Can you make a cloud yourself? Can a cloud be private? Does cloud have to be public? Can cloud be a hybrid of public and private? How can you reach your cloud faster? Where comes after the cloud? “
10. Agility without Agile: Bullshit-Free Engineering: Matt Hackett from Tumblr says: “Developing an engineering culture of profound responsibility, simplicity, and fast motion while still making quality products is not easy. But it is possible to build a company in which engineers and the products they make thrive, without resorting to the restrictions and coercions of a formal development method. Learn about our reasons for embracing bullshit-free engineering and the people, attitudes, and practices that make it feasible. “

Bonus! Fahrenheit has four proposals this year, including mine.

Voting closes at 11:59pm Pacific time on Friday September 2nd!

Are there any panels that have caught your eye?