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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.

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

    and hang them on your Christmas tree?

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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