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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2015, @09:50AM
It's a dumb terminal combined with a mobile device. I don't like it, but I could see it taking off. Their 'orbs & clusters' file management seems intuitive at first glance, but I personally can't imagine it being just fancy graphical front end for files & folders, probably a bit more like Windows 'Libraries'.
If it could work offline with local storage it might be useful. It's really not a PC until it can do that.