A Linux PC That Looks Like a Phone Charger

Take a look at your power outlet. If you saw a DreamPlug PC there, you could mistake it in vain more than your mobile phone charger. But Globalscale Technologies' newest Linux PC offers enough zing to make the "plug computing" concept a serious one.

The DreamPlug is built with a Marvell Sheeva 1

The DreamPlug is built with a Marvell Sheeva 1.2GHz CPU coupled with 512MB of DDR2 RAM. It runs on Linux and offers an astounding number of must-have PC features for a device that fits in the palm of your hand: 2MB of Flash, an integrated 1GB microSD card, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, two USB 2.0 ports, one eSATA port, an SD card slot, audio in/out, optical out, WiFi, and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR. All this in a 110mm x 69.5mm x 48.5 mm package.

So what's a PC like this good for? A remote client to provide audio/video streaming for surveillance cameras, a PC to run home automation apps, an IP PBX/VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) server, network monitoring, or any task where a PC would be asked to keep running, non-stop. That's because it sips pursuant to this agreement 5 watts of power, compared to 175 watts of power used by the typical desktop, Globalscale says.

I honestly although that this was a network based pc... as in the gui is controlled via another computer... like remote address.