The Future PC as a Set of Pens?

Strudelkugel writes "The Wave Report covers a concept PC that NEC is working on, called P-ISM. (Maybe the name doesn't work, but it looks cool.) The design concept uses five different pens to make a computer. One pen is a CPU, another a camera, one creates a virtual keyboard, another projects the visual output and thus the display and another a communicator (a phone). All five pens can rest in a holding block which recharges the batteries and holds the mass storage. Each pen communicates wirelessly with the others."

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Re:Looks neat, but

[ClubStew]

(ooh er, perhaps there aren't any in the US since there's precious little public transport).

Jackass, we have tons of those things around for other things besides public transportation, of which he have a considerable share. Most people here have their own cars.

Touchscreens are used for numerous things. Recently, I was at a restaurant where even the waitresses had a touch-screen at their station. Many restaurants have them. General merchants like Wal-Mart and Target use them at every check-out counter for credit and debit card users. Most larger banks use them in their ATMs. They're everywhere.

So quit your antagonistic and mindless drivel and don't forget who invented touchscreens - and where.