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RAcCoOnErOuS on 04 January 2009

http://dvice.com/archives/2008/07/tiny_eball_tout.php

 

 

Tiny E-Ball touted as PC of the future

Who says a PC has to be rectangular, or even square? Designer Apostol Tnokovski thinks the PC world is round, and conceived this 6-inch orb-shaped number as his proof. Not only is E-Ball oddball shaped, it’s called “the smallest PC ever made.”

Take a look a the pics in our gallery below, and you'll see the pop-out laser mouse, a pico projector inside that illuminates either the wall or a sheet of paper for a screen, and that laser keyboard that would almost certainly be a clumsy input device. Fix that, and find a motherboard that’ll fit inside this palm-sized baby, and Apostol might be onto something here.



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richardhutnik on 04 January 2009

A ball shaped electronic device has a strong chance of rolling around. Not sure it is a smart move, unless you will hold it in your hand and that causes your brain to get jacked in.... kinda like the PS9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFzu0pWcSD4

People who create things like this, end up dwelling on "coolness" over functionality (and it does look cool).



Viper1 on 04 January 2009

The pictures on the site show gray legs protruding from the sides to stabilize it.



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BrainBoxLtd on 04 January 2009

Looks like the Okama Gamesphere.



lapsed_gamer on 04 January 2009

Projector instead of screen: I think this will happen.
Laser keyboard: if it can be done well.
Spherical: If the point is to make it more convenient (I assume it is) then why?



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Deneidez on 04 January 2009
lapsed_gamer said:
Projector instead of screen: I think this will happen.
Laser keyboard: if it can be done well.
Spherical: If the point is to make it more convenient (I assume it is) then why?

Laser keyboards work quite well already .

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Anyway for PC-gamers its always better to make one from currently available components. Its much cheaper and you get much better computer.



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lapsed_gamer on 04 January 2009
Deneidez said:
lapsed_gamer said:
Projector instead of screen: I think this will happen.
Laser keyboard: if it can be done well.
Spherical: If the point is to make it more convenient (I assume it is) then why?

Laser keyboards work quite well already .

Youtube action

Anyway for PC-gamers its always better to make one from currently available components. Its much cheaper and you get much better computer.

 

Very cool.



"You can never jump away from Conclusions. Getting back is not so easy. That's why we're so terribly crowded here."

Canby - The Phantom Tollbooth

IllegalPaladin on 04 January 2009

Wait, isn't that the PS9?

*edit* Damn, was beaten. Curses for not reading all the posts!



PwrUps on 04 January 2009
richardhutnik said:
A ball shaped electronic device has a strong chance of rolling around. Not sure it is a smart move, unless you will hold it in your hand and that causes your brain to get jacked in.... kinda like the PS9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFzu0pWcSD4

People who create things like this, end up dwelling on "coolness" over functionality (and it does look cool).

 

Looks like they already thought about that. It has some support legs to keep it from rolling around.



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Strategyking92 on 04 January 2009

So, you throw this at somebody and it shoots you with it's laser? cool.



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