Papky

To me this just looks like a pen camera and I am guessing  that most of you would have thought the same..we are absolutely wrong!You’ve just seen something that will replace your PC in the near future.  However, although a conceptual prototype of the “pen” computer was  built in 2003, such devices are not yet available to consumers.

An article about the device published on the Wave Report website explains:’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 wireless, possibly Bluetooth.

”P-ISM is a gadget package including five functions:  a pen-style cellular phone with a handwriting data input function, virtual keyboard, a very small projector, camera scanner, and personal ID key with cashless pass function. P-ISMs are connected with one another through short-range wireless technology. The whole set is also connected to the Internet through the cellular phone function. This personal gadget in a minimalistic pen style enables the ultimate ubiquitous computing’

However, the prototype displayed at ITU Telecom World was apparently the  only sample that was built and reportedly cost $30,000.

Well I guess we will have to just wait and hope we see this in the shelves soon cos my carrying my laptop around is starting to give me backaches!