The Future PC as a Set of Pens? 327
Strudelkugel writes "The Wave Report covers a concept PC that NEC is working on, called P-ISM. (Maybe the name doesn't work, but it looks cool.) The design concept uses five different pens to make a computer. One pen is a CPU, another a camera, one creates a virtual keyboard, another projects the visual output and thus the display and another a communicator (a phone). All five pens can rest in a holding block which recharges the batteries and holds the mass storage. Each pen communicates wirelessly with the others."
Power Rangers Bastardization (Score:5, Funny)
Just imagine, one pen a different color (Red, Blue, Black, Yellow and Pink).
Camera!
Virtual Keyboard
Output!
Phone!
CPU!
I can imagine there would also be Green, Purple and White pens. These would be evil addon pens.
I can't imagine what they'd fight against. It would be the lamest thing since Gumby.
Chew, chew, chew (Score:5, Funny)
Reinout
Hey! That's My pen!!! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm reminded of the old Kids in the Hall sketch. "Hey, That's my pen!!!"
Make it 5 pocket protectors instead (Score:3, Funny)
Looks somebody watches 80's anime. (Score:1, Funny)
We've come full circle... (Score:5, Funny)
Pocket Protector Commandoes GO! (Score:4, Funny)
I think he used the Revenge of the Nerd movies. Next up: the slide-rule server.
Re:first (Score:5, Funny)
=P
Anyway, at the rate people lose their pens, this is probably not too great...
Needless to say: NO, you CANNOT borrow my pen!
No Thanks (Score:3, Funny)
Are you Corn Fed? [ebay.com]
Re:Power Rangers Bastardization (Score:3, Funny)
Um.. Voltron?
"And I'll form... the head!"
I wonder (Score:2, Funny)
Even Better Than That (Score:3, Funny)
Size (Score:3, Funny)
Open channel D! (Score:5, Funny)
hack (Score:3, Funny)
In Brief (Score:0, Funny)
(that's the right way round, yeah?)
pocket protector (Score:4, Funny)
New Sylvester Stallone movie (Score:2, Funny)
Jeff
Re:Power Rangers Bastardization (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Power Rangers Bastardization (Score:5, Funny)
Pencils?
This is a good idea why? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I wonder (Score:3, Funny)
If it gets to hot I wouldn't want that pen in my front pants pocket.
Already slashdotted.... (Score:3, Funny)
Plus ca change...
Re:Make it 5 pocket protectors instead (Score:5, Funny)
Be honest! (Score:3, Funny)
slashdotted (Score:2, Funny)
Personally... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:voice recognition (Score:3, Funny)
left right click click left left start run format c: enter yes enter noooooooo!!!!
Re:Power Rangers Bastardization (Score:5, Funny)
No, no you,ve got it all wrong It's: with their powers combined they become: CAPTAIN PLANET
the first pens that are capable of hugging trees on their own, and you thought your show was lame!
i have to say it.... (Score:2, Funny)
Remember (Score:4, Funny)
is mightier than the sword.
New market for games envisaged (Score:2, Funny)
Computers under the bed or behind the fridge? (Score:1, Funny)
Ha! One-upped! (Score:4, Funny)
What? It comes in your pants!
Great! Just when geeks... (Score:5, Funny)
Wizardry (Score:4, Funny)
Ordinary people think that computing has to do with magic anyway. (must be those pesky "wizard interfaces")
Re:Chew, chew, chew (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Remember (Score:3, Funny)
But my pen is only running at 900MHz, my sword is OC's to almost 2Ghz
Good heat dissipation I guess!
I can just see the pocket protectors now. (Score:5, Funny)
I just hapPENed to wonder.... (Score:5, Funny)
Mitch Hedberg (Score:3, Funny)
"I bought an expensive pen the other day because I keep loseing pens and I was tired of not careing"
And if you assemble them sllightly differently... (Score:3, Funny)
I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but (Score:3, Funny)
Assuming it manages to start, I think this [wired.com] is going to become a lot more common! (Oops! Time for a meeting. Better pocket m' pens. OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Hey, are you happy to see me or is that a.... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Chew, chew, chew (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Remember (Score:4, Funny)
Conceptualization Stages (Score:4, Funny)
Dude: Lay it on me man.
Man: You know how superman has all those crystals that he can like, plug into stuff in the fortress? and it like . . . does stuff?
Dude: That is totally sweet.
Man: Oh yah, i know - but what if, like, EACH one of those crystals was also . . . A FULLY FUNCTIONAL PEN!!!!
Dude: . . . . You have just totally blown my mind man.
--- and if you don't like that, how about this ---
Infinium Labs: Behold the majesty of our new, always on, super-terrific awesome badass pen computer thingy!
Person: um . . . that's just a bunch of ball point pens shoved into a styrofoam block.
Infinium: LIES! don't you see the battery?
Person: It's just held on with scotch tape. you don't even have a wire running to it or anything.
Lawyer: You will cease and desist from disparaging Infinium Labs.
Person: whatever.
Darl: excuse me gentlemen, but . . . would that be running linux by any chance?
Re:Power Rangers Bastardization (Score:4, Funny)
I think you need a new 'display' pen...
either that or your display pen is using WEP... i should check for a SMTP server on it... you might be peddling gen.er.ic V!I!A!G!R!A! to the world...
Re:Hey! That's My pen!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:We've come full circle... (Score:5, Funny)
Meet Jim, your average cubicle-dweller. But this is a very different type of cubicle... there's no computer! But wait! What's this? Jim seems to be powering up his pen collection! And his necktie is a printer!
Re:No Thanks (Score:4, Funny)
Besides, my post was just a play on words. Notice I used "shizm" and not "shizzle". And yes, there is no inherent meaning... it just sounded funny to me.
Geez... (Score:3, Funny)
I don't know about you, but I like feeling the keys putting up resistance
someone has control issues...!
:-)
Re:voice recognition in 'hand', not 'pen' (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
Ok That Was Bad...
Hey Guys! (Score:3, Funny)
Is that a hard drive in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
The possibilities for jocularity seem endless. Oh, and I'm really looking forward to a computer I can lose 1/5th of through a moment of innatention. "No, waiter, I REALLY need MY pen back. It's got all the third quarter earnings numbers on it!"
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
New Computer, New Name (Score:5, Funny)
That way we can truthfully say:
"I do all my productive work now with my pen-is!"
One Question....... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:voice recognition (Score:5, Funny)
I take it the syntax error is deliberate?
A new class warfare begins (Score:2, Funny)
Life is a trip - pack your parachute.
Re:Chew, chew, chew (Score:4, Funny)
I can just see it now. An office stationary cupboard becomes self-aware and takes over the world with the aid of the geometry section of the local office suppliers and a couple of sets of Hot-Wheels...
In other news... (Score:1, Funny)
Ah Yes... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Power Rangers Bastardization (Score:4, Funny)
It's expected to be hard to use.
Re:The problem with that (Score:2, Funny)
I felt depressed while reading your post.
P-ISM (Score:5, Funny)
I'm just wondering, if P-ISM is the name of this product, what are they going to call the Java-enabled version?
Re:voice recognition (Score:3, Funny)
Now figure out a way to SPEAK that action, without any ambiguity. Now compare how long it takes to SAY that, with how long it takes to do via a keyboard or mouse.
It may not replace it COMPLETELY but....
"Power on"
"Sort
"Power off"
I can see a big potential in hands-free computing, and frankly, this probably wraps up what, 60% of the market and 80% of
They Forgot the Most Important Pen (Score:2, Funny)
In other words, the pen that runs Windows.
Tactile Feedback Device (Score:1, Funny)
Dumb idea (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Looks neat, but (Score:3, Funny)
Check out As-U-Type [asutype.com], a nice piece of software that fixes spelling mistakes in any Windows application (or underlines them with red, which doesn't work in Opera, though...). That's the kind of technology that may be helpful to P-ISM users.
P.S. There may be errors in this post, since As-U-Type is not compatible with another piece of software, which I use to automatically switch from Latin to Cyrillic.