h a l f b a k e r yClearly this is a metaphor for something.
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A mouse, but inside its a modified PDA.
The mouse 'tail' is in fact your monitor output.
It would have bluetooth built-in so that you could use a bluetooth keyboard.
So at work (or wherever) you set up your "docking" station, but in fact all that would be would a bluetooth keyboard and a monitor.
More
portable than a laptop and no need to synchronise like a PDA.
Obviously rubbish at getting at your documents on the go....
screen on a mouse
http://www.metku.ne.../loginoki/index_eng
http://www.metku.net/index.html?path=mods/loginoki/index_eng [monojohnny, Jul 26 2006]
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//the mouse "tail" is in fact your monitor output// |
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So does the "tail" do "sign language"? I think you need to explain this idea further. |
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So you have a computer without a screen or keyboard. |
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But it has one video out lead, so you can plug it into a monitor, bluetooth would be able to pick up a keyboard and the processor, disks, memory, OS would inside the mouse - which would also be used in the normal way. |
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Apple is working on this for sure. |
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Next up is a computer in the power cable. |
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// Apple is working on this for sure.// |
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[nihilo] - was that "Apple are bound to be trying to make this" or "Apple are definately making this" ? Cos (and not just cos its my idea ;-) ) I would be really interested to see something like this. |
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have you seen some of the hidden file
servers built into backup battery supplies
[nihilo]? |
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I was being facetious.
Explaining that took all the fun out of it. |
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If I was to delete the last three responses, would that go some way to restore the fun? |
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(at least for other people reading (and fishboning) this idea) ..... |
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A modified version of this would be good, if it could do things like mount as storage on my laptop, control my TV, connect to a set-top box to play media on my stereo, etc. |
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[nihilo], i'm immune to facetiousness
through sheer pretentiousness. ha! |
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There are plenty of "computer in the keyboard" designs out there. How is this better? You still need both objects. |
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Having a small screen built into the mouse would allow you to use it as a PDA when not near a larger monitor... I think it's a great idea, although plugging in a keyboard may be a little more involved. I suppose if you are treating the monitor as a docking station, then you could have a separate keyboard built in - or one of those laser ones... |
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[Galbinus_Caeli] ; it would be slighter smaller than a keyboard ? |
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[spandit] - laser keyboard...mmmh nice enhancement - I guess the only problem would be the keyboard would be constantly moving as you moved the mouse !! |
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Although, maybe using some of the technology (somehow) [Galbinus_Caeli]'s "Constant Length Laser Pointer" could be used to keep the keyboard a constant size, even the mouse was being moved around... |
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(The Baddiel and Skinner song "it'll never work, it'll never work.." has just entered my head.....) |
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/smaller than a keyboard/ Yeah, but you still need the keyboard. In fact the keyboard and monitor seems to me to be the irreducible minimum of a computer. A keyboard with a trackpoint or stroke pad duplicates the function of the mouse. So the CPU/storage could reside in one of those. |
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Also a mouse is the most easily lost or destoryed component of a computer. Putting the valuables in there just does not make sense to me. |
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Good point - although possibly you could have some functionality witout a keyboard - I agree. |
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The point about being damaged / lost is something I hadn't thought of though. |
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But people carry data on losable stuff all the time. I've just lost my pen-drive, for example. |
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If it could plug directly into a TV as well as a monitor it would be much more widely usable.
For viewing or manipulating data, you often don't need a keyboard. |
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It would be great for presentations, for example. |
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if your computer's in a snow globe, you
can submerge it in oil for better cooling.
you have to make sure that everything is
completely sealed, and the oil might look a
bit odd what with not being clear and all. |
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//why not shove some of the graphical sided of the computer gubbins into the monitor// |
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You mean move the graphics card into the monitor..?(or most of it) |
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Is the data-rate lower on the input side of a graphics card that on the output ? I dunno. |
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[spandit] Just found this. (see link)
:-) |
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dammit [johnny]! i was about to link that! |
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since bluetooth is getting a lot faster and they have induction pad power options consider this: |
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a "workstation" that is itself a dumb terminal with built in internet,bt,etc., and a mousepad that hides an induction coil to keep the mouse charged... |
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the mouse auto connects to the display, then the display shows an icon of your mousepc, touch the screen icon and your online.voila. |
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check web pages, download info, print on the built in printer in the workstation or a shared printer around 10 public terminals in a mall or airport. |
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you can use the keyboard on the terminal as well! it links thru the bluetooth. |
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and then, the impossible happens,
think about it.....
the mouse rings and you pick it up,flip it open and take the call cause the mouspc s ALSO your cell phone!!! |
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