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The Future PC as a Set of Pens?

Posted by michael on from the pocket-protectors-back-in-style dept.

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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  1. Crap! by Turd+Rippleton · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Instead of losing pens, now I'm going to lose computers!

    ~Turd

  2. No "Beowulf Cluster" Joke yet? by chendo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, here it goes:

    Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of those!

    Although I'd imagine you could find a pretty big cluster if you walked into a stationary store ;p

    And anyone feel like telling me what a 'pocket protector' is? It's almost 1am, I haven't touched my homework, and I'm about to fall asleep on the keyboard.

    --
    Founder of Mirror Moon - Tsukihime Game Trans
  3. My webserver... by crawdaddy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    is hosted on a TI-86, but I'm sure as hell not going to post a link to it on here!