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January 4, 2008

The Internet Victorinox??

whitespaces.jpgWe have pointed out before that PCless internet devices will have a big presence in the future. See PodCast #3. Well is this one of those?

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Here you have a networked display device that can be a:

  • Picture frame
  • Alarm Clock
  • Radio
  • ITunes amp
  • Quote Ticker
  • What have you?

The kicker? Its deliberately hackable. Its a platform. There is a linux SDK to write the micro apps for this little device. Somebody is going to hack this with Google Calendar and sell millions of copies of the microapp for $4.99.

Linky.

Filed under Open Source, new technology by Dr. Dog

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