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Sony plans to release new toy: Airboard

Posted by timothy on from the would-buy-one-for-my-sweetheart dept.

valmont: "The folks at cnet have this article about Sony's latest toy: The Airboard. It seems to merge all kinds of wild stuff in a pad hooked to a base station with TV Antenna and wireless modem: simultaneous TV and Internet/web browsing, remote-controlling of home appliances. Looks pretty nifty ..." And considering that Sony is hep to Transmeta, I wonder what chip and OS will power this thing.

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  1. The ultimate couch potato... by FreeJack1 · · Score: 5
    Your day will consist of nothing more than:
    9:45am - wake up and roll over.
    9:50am - devour tube of scrambled eggs w/ french toast.
    10:00am - Reach over and switch on "Airboard".
    10:05am - Begin day of telecommuting, teleconferencing and all kinds of telecrap!
    6:45pm - you feel sleepy, use "Airboard" to switch on TV across the room.
    7:20pm - Nothing on TV, you switch everything off and roll your lard ass over and go back to sleep. You've had a busy day you little buckaroo! Get some rest, you deserve it.

    No thanks, I like actually doing physical work and exercising.


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  2. those rascally norwegians by happystink · · Score: 5
    The hackers are obviously still posting stories, because this one is actually somewhat interesting, and has nothing to do with napster, cuecat, intellectual property or DeCss. Message to hackers: Do not give slashdot back, please.

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