Neat. I hope to see computers in this format on the market soon.
Category: Computers
Comic Life
Here is a very fun and cool app. Take a bunch of photos, drop them into a comic page add some text in the balloons and bingo! Instant comic book! Ok, it’s good enough to use for little projects… What the hell, I’d use it for a little ‘zine… Why not? Here comes my many travel adventures in the form of a comic book! New York, Japan, Thailand…
Amazing G4 Case Mod
Wow! This guy scratch built a case in the shape of a G4 Cube but styled like a G5. And there is not reason you could not do the same thing for a PC built with a mini-ATX mainboard.
Translated via BabblefishPOWER Mac G4 Cube (G5 Cube Case)
Libretto Revival
Toshiba has introduced a new Libretto micro laptop in Japan. I remember seeing them when they were still running with a P-100 CPU. This is just about the perfect computer for goingon the road with a digital camera. That 60GB hard drive would hold a lot of photos (even if 20GB would be used for the OS and apps)!
…This is a mobile notebook with a weight of under 1kg and A5 size. The body size is 210 x 165 x 29.8 ~ 33.4mm (W x D x H), and it weighs about 999g; with the DVD dock, it weighs about 1499g.
…Besides including a DVD Dock or not, the specifications on the models are the same — the low power consumption Pentium M 733 (1.10GHz), 256MB of PC2700 DDR SDRAM, Intel 855GME chipset (onboard video), and 60GB hard drive. A 7.2″ “Clear SuperView” LCD is also provided, with a resolution of 1280 x 768.
Available interfaces are USB 2.0 x 2, Ethernet, Bluetooth (Ver 2.0), IEEE 802.11b/g wireless LAN, mini RGB x 1 (mini D-Sub 15 pin conversion cable included), IEEE 1394 (4-pin) x 1, Type2 PC Card slot, and SD card slot. The lithium ion battery will power the unit for roughly 5.3 hours.
Orb
Have an XP box with all sorts of photos and video on it? Ever want to view said files from someplace other than your home? Don’t want to lug a cart full of hard drives full of all your files and dread the idea of having to always sync your data up with the portable? Give Orb a try.
Orb is an application that will allow you to stream media from your home (or office) system to pretty much anything from pretty much anywhere. The front end is a web app so you don’t have to worry about having the right CPU build if your using a PDA or cell phone. I’m going to give it a try and see how it works. I have a few TV shows that I have saved via my PVR in a not quite DVD quality (2.6GB/hr). I want to see how well I can stream one of these from a Starsucks. 🙂
Orb Networks
