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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."
Just imagine, one pen a different color (Red, Blue, Black, Yellow and Pink).
Camera!
Virtual Keyboard
Output!
Phone!
CPU!
I can imagine there would also be Green, Purple and White pens. These would be evil addon pens.
I can't imagine what they'd fight against. It would be the lamest thing since Gumby.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
Cool, finally a computer I can chew on!
Reinout
Reinout van Rees
And you think you get pissed off now when someone walks off with one of your pens....
I'm reminded of the old Kids in the Hall sketch. "Hey, That's my pen!!!"
Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?
If you want to sell to geeks, you have to know your market
You will once again be able to identify a geek by his pocket protector.
Ichihashi-son used as inspiration James Bond and the future of what technology could be. But Ichihashi-son stated that this is closer to reality than what appears in the 007 movies.
I think he used the Revenge of the Nerd movies. Next up: the slide-rule server.
I looked into the abyss, and the abyss looked into me--and we both winked.
Doh off by a minute!
=P
Anyway, at the rate people lose their pens, this is probably not too great...
Needless to say: NO, you CANNOT borrow my pen!
People borrow pens without returning them all the time. I don't wnat someone to fo' shizm my P-ISM.
Are you Corn Fed?
If they make these pens look like crystals, we can start living it up in out own personal fortresses of solitude!
That was classic intercourse!
And these will be even smaller then my handheld....or not. Sure you will be able to manipulate them into differant shap[es in your pocket, but what happens on the day you forget one of your pens? And imagine all the wierd looks you'll be getting at the laundramat when you go insane, not because of the ink splotch, but because of the cost :P
Whee signature.
He was really inspired by the man from u.n.c.l.e. A james bond pen would dispense acid, and have a built in laser, super electromagnet and rocket launcher.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
Can I also get a pocket protector that acts as a firewall to prevent my pens in my pocket from getting hacked?
Evolution or ID?
Mod parent up!
I'm waiting for the one marker to rule them all!
Trust Your Technolust
That's right, I want a dozen people saying:
left right click click left left start run format c: enter yes enter noooooooo!!!!
is mightier than the sword.
P-ISM? A computer built into pens?! That's nothing! I invented a computer that's built into your jeans! I call it J-ISM, naturally.
What? It comes in your pants!
Just when geeks were gettin away from pocket protectors and becoming socially aceptable. Now I'll never get laid. Nevermind, wasn't much chance of that anyway.
Ordinary people think that computing has to do with magic anyway. (must be those pesky "wizard interfaces")
I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is an imaginary number. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and dial again.
Like geeks don't have enough baggage stuck on our image. I can just see the pocket protectors with cooling fans and neon lights on them....*shudder*
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... if configured as servers, will they be mightier than the blade?
Man: Dude . . . i just had a sweet idea.
Dude: Lay it on me man.
Man: You know how superman has all those crystals that he can like, plug into stuff in the fortress? and it like . . . does stuff?
Dude: That is totally sweet.
Man: Oh yah, i know - but what if, like, EACH one of those crystals was also . . . A FULLY FUNCTIONAL PEN!!!!
Dude: . . . . You have just totally blown my mind man.
--- and if you don't like that, how about this ---
Infinium Labs: Behold the majesty of our new, always on, super-terrific awesome badass pen computer thingy!
Person: um . . . that's just a bunch of ball point pens shoved into a styrofoam block.
Infinium: LIES! don't you see the battery?
Person: It's just held on with scotch tape. you don't even have a wire running to it or anything.
Lawyer: You will cease and desist from disparaging Infinium Labs.
Person: whatever.
Darl: excuse me gentlemen, but . . . would that be running linux by any chance?
** Chigusaaa!!! You're the coolest girl in the WORLD!!! **
Umm, Harlan Ellision wrote it. Who cares who they hired as the meat puppet to act in it?
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We should call these 'interactive pens' or 'pen-i'.
That way we can truthfully say:
"I do all my productive work now with my pen-is!"
Do they come with a pocket protector?
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I take it the syntax error is deliberate?
I'm just wondering, if P-ISM is the name of this product, what are they going to call the Java-enabled version?