Hi.
If you guys have the time and inclination then do give a thought to the animated desktop idea. It is aimed at senior citizens and other freshers who are too scared to go near a computer.
It will have big animated icons that resemble actual items used and tasks performed in daily life. For example to write a letter, there is an icon of a beautiful letter pad with pages flapping. The helping hand then turns into a pen that moves across characters as they are typed, to give an impression of a hand doing the writing. To change the font, a side button called 'writing styles' is used. On tapping that button, a magnified window of a sample letter opens up and a full paragraph of test text with that font is shown on the screen. After the letter is typed, it is either printed or the 'mail it' option is selected. The 'mail it' option makes the letter fold itself into an envelope. To post the letter, the receiving party's email address is typed on the envelope. A helping hand then posts it into a red post box. A uniformed postman then declares any errors if the smtp threw errors. To receive mail, the helping hand checks the letter box icon and if mail is received, it drops down like closed envelopes into a tray or bag.
The entire system can be a talking and animated one like a friendly male or female assistant helping out the senior citizen. It can be made in different languages. Nowadays, I see a lot of flash animation with audio and video and its very slim and trim on the memory. So something like that can be developed.