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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.
(Score: 2, Informative) by tftp on Sunday October 25 2015, @06:53AM
Never mind sending an orb to someone. Try first to point another piece of software, on your local computer, to this orb in that cluster, if their positions are fluid and subject to change. There were many GUI-based filesystems, and they are all dead - first, because we need certainty about location; then because that certainty must be mathematically expressed in a simple to follow way; then because computers need to be able to find objects just as easily as humans do; and, finally, visually oriented filing systems are very difficult to work with, as they strain eyesight and require a human to interpret the GUI. Imagine typing on a keyboard where all the keys are randomly reassigned every few minutes...