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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. How very 1960's by g4dget · · Score: 4, Interesting

    See here for lots of other plasticky 1960's round designs. Here is the sphere radio with 8-track.

  2. No matching monitor by masonbrown · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Did you see how tacky it looks sitting next to the beige CRT monitor? Can't they make a half-sphere green thing to go with it?

  3. Re:Cute by Alien54 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Basketball.

    A new way of networking, an enhancement on sneaker-net. You pass the whole computer.

    [insert segway to semi serious thought]

    Which is an interesting concept in itself - you do not send just the data packets, but the computational packages as well. This would not be useful so much on earth, but would be more important in interplanetary civilization.

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