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PC in a.... Sphere?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the catch-it-before-it-rolls-away dept.

clemens writes "A Japanese manufacturer has come up with this spherical PC." I love the concept of your PC accidentally rolling off your desk. Doesn't that lime green one remind anyone else of Gundam?

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  1. Death Star by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It almost looks like the Death Star. It even has an equitorial axis. They should al least put a webcam where the laser should go.

    1. Re:Death Star by gspeare · · Score: 4, Funny

      They should al least put a webcam where the laser should go.

      Actually, that's where the DRM-Enforcement Module goes...

  2. Don't Panic! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know...the green one looks "mostly harmless"

  3. Don't Panic by Steve+S · · Score: 5, Funny

    A couple of arms and a red tongue...

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  4. if it vibrated and by TerryAtWork · · Score: 5, Funny

    fit in your pants it would be even more Japanese.

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  5. Jeez by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    First square watermelons, now spherical computers? Whatever they're smoking, it must be good.

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  6. Re:Cute by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny
    Can someone tell me if there is any functionality to such a form factor?

    Humor. Bring back the old bowling jokes.
    1. Get two of them
    2. State loudly, "Hey, look! I've got computers in my balls!"
    3. Enjoy being the life of the party
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  7. Re:Cute by kvn299 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can throw it at your boss when you're having one of the those days.

  8. Get a bunch of these.... by moniker_21 · · Score: 5, Funny

    and hang them on your Christmas tree?

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    1. Re:Get a bunch of these.... by micromoog · · Score: 4, Funny
      Yeah, then you could have a Beowulf clu...

      never mind.

  9. Didn't Apple already do this? by creynolds · · Score: 4, Funny


    Just glue together two iMacs together at the base and you have the same thing, plus dual CPUs and two screens (or would they be "legs"?).

    1. Re:Didn't Apple already do this? by krugdm · · Score: 4, Funny

      Like this?

  10. Translation... by krugdm · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...courtesy of the fish...

    "...with spatula drawing formation..."

  11. Re:Now that is cool... by nhavar · · Score: 5, Funny

    hey that's a great idea put a couple of high powered magnets on the bottom and built into the desk and it would hov... oh... nevermind...

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  12. New slashdotting term? by dr_dank · · Score: 4, Funny

    If a site is being hosted from one of these and it gets posted here, could it be said that we're busting their balls?

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  13. Re:Creative. by KarmaWhiners · · Score: 4, Funny

    No way. Not from a country with cubic watermelons.

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  14. Pacman by docbrown42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    First, they put Pacman into a computer...now they put a computer into Pacman!

    (No, this is not an "In Soviet Russia" joke!)

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  15. Re:Translation by Xerithane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just curious, did you translate that yourself or did you use software. That was way too good to come out of babelfish.

    If you did it by hand, nice job. I'm learning Japanese right now, and having a helluva time getting all the kanji embedded in my head. If you are non-native Japanese, what was your learning mechanism?

    Alrighty, enough off topicness:
    The silver one actually looks cool. I wonder how hard of a time it would be to bring one back through customs.

    "What is this, sir?"
    "It's a computer."
    "Right... I need you to follow me."
    "Ok, but why did you just hand me vaseline?"

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  16. Re:Creative. by glwtta · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's cute, yes, but that's it. It provides no benefits.

    Brilliant! You showed us that a spherical computer is not efficient use of space. I feel so silly now.

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  17. I don't think so... by aussersterne · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some [in]equalities:

    Cute != Aesthetically pleasing.

    Bauhaus == Aesthetically pleasing.

    Hello Kitty == Ugly and annoying as hell.

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