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A $25 PC On a USB Stick

Posted by Soulskill on from the when-did-the-future-get-here dept.

KPexEA writes with this excerpt from geek.com: "[Game developer David] Braben has developed a tiny USB stick PC that has an HDMI port on one end and a USB port on the other. You plug it into an HDMI socket and then connect a keyboard via the USB port, giving you a fully functioning machine running a version of Linux. The cost? $25. The hardware being offered is no slouch either. It uses a 700MHz ARM11 processor coupled with 128MB of RAM and runs OpenGL ES 2.0, allowing for decent graphics performance with 1080p output confirmed. ... We can expect it to run a range of Linux distributions, but it looks like Ubuntu may be the distro it ships with. That means it will handle web browsing, run office applications, and give the user a fully functional computer to play with as soon as it's plugged in. All that and it can be carried in your pocket or on a key chain."

2 of 352 comments (clear)

  1. OLPC Owned by LordStormes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Eat your heart out, OLPC. This is 10 PC's per pocket.

  2. Re:Power? by AngryNick · · Score: 3, Funny

    It runs on EM radiation from your panel.

    Actually, since it runs Ubuntu it can also harness the power of Unity.