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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday October 24 2015, @09:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-heard-this-before dept.

Think of PC as standing for an innovative pocket computer not personal computer. This is a made-in-Finland computing rethink called Solu, now up on Kickstarter seeking funds.

It's a tiny box, made out of wood, that serves as a pocket computer which you can use independently but it can also be connected up to a screen at the office, becoming your full blown desktop computer. Softpedia's Marius Nestor said they are using a Linux kernel based operating system, the SoluOS.

North America technology reporter for the BBC, Dave Lee, reported on this attempt from Helsinki-based Solu Machines to reinvent the PC.

Computing power is packed into the small touchscreen device. "It can be hooked up to a bigger display at which point the handheld device is used as a controller. Various gestures - swiping, tapping, pinching - are used to control what happens on the bigger screen," said Lee.


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by tangomargarine on Sunday October 25 2015, @01:23AM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Sunday October 25 2015, @01:23AM (#254174)

    Oh nice, and it's cloud-based and a subscription model. It's like they're helpfully gathering everything I hate about modern computing into one easily-ignorable location.

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  • (Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Sunday October 25 2015, @08:12PM

    by Hyperturtle (2824) on Sunday October 25 2015, @08:12PM (#254421)

    Yeah the last one of this sort of thing that I had, it was called an I-Opener. I installed windows 98 on it. I stopped using it because even with 98 on it, it sucked, for the same reasons you described.