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Intel's 'Personal Server': The Handheld Killer?

Posted by michael on from the have-your-device-call-my-device-and-we'll-do-lunch dept.

markbaard writes "Intel is developing a wireless, pocket-sized personal server that may replace laptops and PDAs altogether. The 'personal server,' which is being developed at Intel Research by ubiquitous computing wizard Roy Want, is the size of a deck of cards, half the weight of an iPaq, and has no i/o, no screen, and no peripherals. The device never leaves its user's pocket or handbag. Pictures of the personal server and the story are at baard.com."

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  1. Permalink to the Article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Permalink here: http://www.baard.com/archives/2003_05.html#000071

  2. Old News by mclove · · Score: 5, Informative

    This already exists, more or less, in the form of the Toshiba HopBit. And I think that Toshiba's smarter than Intel in positioning their personal server as an accessory for PDA's rather than as a replacement for them. A box with no screen doesn't have very much sex appeal, and people like to be able to access information on the go, so people will probably buy these things mostly to serve as video storage for their Tungsten T's and iPaqs.

  3. Re:How can it replace a PDA? by mhesseltine · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to the article, this "box" has both Bluetooth and 802.11 interfaces. You walk up to any PC that supports these technologies and can access your box.

    I imagine that, alternatively, you could use a Bluetooth keyboard, speakers, etc. and display? to use this.

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  4. Not a "handheld killer" by larryleung · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is typical /. misreading of the article. It's designed as a server... something that provides background services to the user.

    Now combined with various IO devices it may match the functionality of a handheld. Here is the ubicomp 2002 paper about it.

  5. more info... by mz001b · · Score: 5, Informative

    since the link is horribly /.'d already, this has a lot of detailed info: Intel persional server PDF