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Japanese Pocket-Size PC Cube Demonstrated

Posted by simoniker on from the sharp-edges-the-new-rock-n-roll dept.

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."

3 of 254 comments (clear)

  1. Larger photo by Karamchand · · Score: 5, Informative

    Get it here.
    Looks quite nice to me. Even an integrated ethernet port, audio... - nice, where can I get it? ;-)

  2. alternatively by Bram+Stolk · · Score: 5, Informative

    Alternatively, you could get a cerfcube,
    which *does* run linux, and is smaller.

    see:
    http://www.intrinsyc.com/products/cerfcube /

    tcube site is slashdotted, but I suspect
    that the cerfcube consumes less power as
    well.

    --
    Bram Stolk http://stolk.org/tlctc/
  3. Actual size of the T-Cube by base_chakra · · Score: 4, Informative

    The T-Cube's dimensions are 52x52x45mm. That's pretty damn small!

    For those outside Asia, comparing the T-Cube's size to an orange may be a little misleading, although it's apparent from the photo that the oranges are smaller than navel oranges. To further clarify the point of reference, djqed is right in that the oranges in the photos are mikan. 'Mikan' is the Japanese word for mandarin oranges, of which tangerines are one type (but the oranges in the photos aren't tangerines).