Future of Personal Computing - a Pen with a Paper all over again...

NEC Design, Ltd. in Tokyo offers a smorgasbord of new ideas, some of which will likely blow your mind. I am pretty certain that some have the potential to change the face of personal computing in the foreseeable future.

Pen-style Personal Computer

You might've got one of these "hard-to-believe" emails and wondered if this is true or is this a myth:





Look closely and guess what they could be... Are they pens with cameras? No, much better than that:



Can anyone say, "Good-bye laptops?"



A possible next step in personal computer technology, this is an experimental product called the P-ISM, described by NEC designers as a "Pen-style Personal Networking Gadget Package." (By the way, "pismo" means a written letter in Russian... are these Japanese scientists secretly studying Russian language?) A prototype of the system, which cost a reported $30,000 to build, was unveiled at ITU Telecom World in 2003.

The concept is outlined as follows on the NEC Design Web site:

"P-ISM is a "pen-computer" package including five functions: a pen-style cellular phone with a handwriting data input, 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 minimalist pen style enables the ultimate ubiquitous computing."



Personally I think that the old laptop "screen and keyboard" technology will persist for a while (the way books have a staying power over the computer monitors). But then you have to admit, the pen and paper are the ultimate writing/reading symbols that we naturally accept. It's only a matter of time until someone develops a marketable and useful product... masquerading as "smart" pen and "smart" paper.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

where this tecnolgy is made cuz i'll love this country
day by day and u hear somthing new
the computer will be like a bottom in ur shirt
nise post dude
good luck n ur space
lastsurrender.....

Anonymous said...

I can make it

Anonymous said...

nice man what is this tecnolgy day by day the computer riches to higher level one day u'll hear that the computer in ur shirt bottom
good luck in ur space dude
last surrender...

Anonymous said...

nice computer
good luck in ur space dude
last surrender....

 
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