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?"

Comments

Laundry advice?

[ackthpt]

So, if your collar is wired, do you dry clean?

You've got token ring around the collar!

Re:Laundry advice?

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

I think it a poor description. The people who'd be interested in something like this rarely wear anything but T-shirts...

Unless they mean a collar with a buckle and a D-ring...

What Distro ?

[SpanishInquisition]

Red Neck Hat?

Re:What Distro ?

[ajrs]

Black Tie Linux. Black Tie is an elegant distro based on Debian, but its users tend to be exclusive.

Wearable Linux

[CaptainAlbert]

I'm sure there's a "Slacksware" joke in here somewhere, but I'm not quite awake enough to make it. :)

Re:Wearable Linux

[hardcode57]

I think you mean 'is that a gnu in your pocket?'

Management

[petabyte]

I see management giving all their employee's one of these. Well, right after the little shock module is released for it.

"Slashdoting again?!" ... *ZAP*

Bugs need to be ironed out.

[Traicovn]

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.

Re:Ohh sexy jewelry :o)

[paranode]

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.

Re:This

[Thud457]

Q:What's the limiting factor for pocket computers?

A:The size of your pockets!

Re:What kind of collar?

[sTalking_Goat]

or a big studded leather gothy/BSDM kind of collar?

"Slave you've been bad. Do you know what happens to bad boys?!"

"No Mistress, but wait let me google it..."

Grey Matter

[pipingguy]

Is collar-top computing the Next Big Thing?

Why not? For many, it'd be the only processing power above the neck.

Super-office-guy!!!

[JawFunk]

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."

I'm still waiting for nostril-embedded computers

[LazloToth]

I hope the keyboard plug is PS/2 - - not USB! Ouch!

The secret of Dilbert's necktie.

[AJWM]

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...

I don't think the throat is the best spot for it.

[fireboy1919]

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.