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Japanese Pocket-Size PC Cube Demonstrated
rocketjam writes "The Japanese company, Personal Media Corporation, has demonstrated a prototype of a cube-shaped pocket-sized computer called the T-Cube (tentative name). The T-Cube runs the T-Engine OS, an operating system apparently being developed by a consortium of Asian companies for embedded devices and networked computers. The machine is about the size of an orange, uses a CPU made by NEC and sports a desktop written for the Chinese Market supporting Multi- and Super-Chinese Character sets. It is scheduled to ship in Q1 of 2004."
they must be beta testing them as webservers today...
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The machine is about the size of an orange...
That's some pocket computer. Excuse me, but is that a PMC T-Cube in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
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Don't you think they could have designed a less-pointy form factor for a pocket computer? Sheesh.
You said "imagine" without mentioning "beowulf cluster"?!?
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Right now I'd rather have an orange.
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They're almost there.
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Now if the Japanese could only make cube-shaped watermelons...
oh wait.
Its gotta be the same pockets that we used to carry around 5.25" floppies in before they introduced the 3.5".
No wonder fashion was so atrocious back then. 5.25" pockets...Helicopter collars...Platform shoes...ick.
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Is that an African or a European orange?
I hope the Japanese are fond of painter's pants and bib overalls.
if this is meant to be a pocket PC, then I don't know where into my pocket I would fit this big LCD display (shown on the photo)...
/. so I'll ask here:) does this thing come equipped with some small erm... pocket display?
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btw: IMHO the thing of this size and proportions does not fit good into trousers pocket.
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I would imagine that a beowulf cluster of these things could look like a rubik's cube.
Although they probably won't fit in a picket easily you could likely have the cutest beawulf cluster out there - it would be like playing with blocks. I'd love to have a server room that looked like this.
When combined, these cubes can form various deadly weapons!!
Be afraid!
A cube the size of an orange, Would that be the average of Riemann sums of the cube inside the orange versus the cube that contains the orange?
There is a pretty big difference in size between a cube that would fit inside an orange, versus a cube that an orange would just barely fit inside.
Isn't there some cubic object that would have made a better analogy? The only thing I see on my desk is the rubik's cube. I'm sure I could do better but I'm in a hurry.
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If it's going to be a pocket computer, why can't they shape it like a bratwurst?
What?
When you put them in your shirt pockets you look like you have breast implants.
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No you just peel the labels off and put them in the right place!
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Make them into earrings hand have a 2 node beowolf cluster.