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A Linux Machine For Your Collar
MadSaxon writes "gumstix.org has a brief but titillating description of a very small Linux machine based on the PXA255: 20 x 80 mm, '64MB SDRAM, 4MB Flash, MMC/SD/SDIO slot, and power management. It takes 3.6V - 5.0V power, and has been drawing under 200 mA.' It weighs less than 12g sans battery, and 'can fit in a collar undetected.' Is collar-top computing the Next Big Thing?"
You've got token ring around the collar!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Red Neck Hat?
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if it's bluetooth capable, it takes new meaning to being a blue collar professional. ;-)
I'm sure there's a "Slacksware" joke in here somewhere, but I'm not quite awake enough to make it. :)
These sigs are more interesting tha
I see management giving all their employee's one of these. Well, right after the little shock module is released for it.
... *ZAP*
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How is this letarded? It seems quiet clever to me... Oh, wait, you meant the other rhyme...
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
I still have some (pretty straight-forward) bugs to be ironed out but a few other friends are now diving into these.
Best to iron these out without the device still in the shirt collar. Medium starch.
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I want this one in silver for my girlfriend
I believe you are referring to Mrs. R. Hand?
Yes we are all quite familiar with her, I don't think she cares for jewelry.
20 x 80 mm = 0.004 x 0.016 rods
A:The size of your pockets!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
"yes, we searched his entire apartment and couldn't find anything but a wireless router...but we know he's sharing mp3s somehow. Kept thumbing his collar....weird kid."
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My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
Is collar-top computing the Next Big Thing?
Why not? For many, it'd be the only processing power above the neck.
You mean it does 'way less' don't you...
Man, if I link this to a voice recognition program for numbers and math terms, add a display in your sleeve or like a HUD inside your glasses, and I could have a voice activated calculator, and totally impress chicks and others when doing complex equations right infront of them: "Hey M, what's the total liability for the period 1972 through 1989 if we owed $6,998,973.20 calculated at a compounded interest of 6%?" "It's THREE! Wait, oh shit, DragonSpeak failed."
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Could be Perl necklace in this context though
What other places did they stuff it before they decided the collar was the best?
Umm, these are linux zealots. It wouldnt fit up their asses next to the iPod and Zaurus.
Realize also that these are knobs who own nothing but collared shirts. On the beach in a collared T shirt. Socks with sandals. They're that cool.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
"gumstix.org has a brief but titillating description"
Main Entry: titillate
Function: verb Inflected Form(s): -lated; -lating
1 : to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation
what the???
Actually, depending on your collar, if you run Windows on it, you can be in double bondage!
I don't know, but it works for me.
Clearly this thing shouldn't run linux, but instead some form of MacOS, just because there's no way I can reliably click one of two buttons with my adam's apple, but I could probably manage it with just the one.
-S
I hope the keyboard plug is PS/2 - - not USB! Ouch!
It's only funny until someone gets hurt. Then, it's hilarious.
What self-respecting Linux geek wears a shirt with a collar?
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Hmm, combine that computer with this flexible display technology (running a flashy screensaver) and put anyone else's loud tie to shame.
Or just use the tie as your monitor, although it'd have to curl up so you could read it more easily. Now what nerd do we know that wears a curling up necktie...
-- Alastair
Belt? Even worse in many ways.
Nah, many geeks have plenty of "padding" around the belt area to protect the device.
I don't know about you, but my company's payroll department is staffed exclusively by ninjas. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've gone to get my paycheck and gotten a throat punch.
They broke my pta (personal throat assistant) right when I got there, and I had to buy something else.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
OMG that's smaller than my Nokia 3590 "ATT GoPhone" by a factor of six! With the QVGA Fexible display, all we need now is power, display control, WiFi, and battery!!!
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Collars, you say? Wait 'til they have Linux-powered codpieces. Just be specific when you ask someone about his uptime.
Combine this device (with a few upgrades) with Wearable displays + This Jacket (maybe an upgrade or two + a computer that speaks sign language + Pervasive wireless broadband and I am starting to get to my "comfort level" for internet access. No longer will I have to wait during my whole commute of 5 minutes to check for the next Slashdot story. No more shaking internet withdrawl on the bus!!
...a CD drive?
THis little guy is going to revolutionize the voyeur porn industry.. .....more and more and more
- Just think of the shoe-cam
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Is collar-top computing the Next Big Thing?
:-)
Hmm...given that this device is based on Linux and us Linux folks hate to wear collars, I give them poor odds of finding a market!
"with a one handed keyboard to use it"
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Okay, I see where you are going with your idea
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