Over time computers have gotten smaller and smaller. (The first computer nearly took up a whole room.)
Note the difference in size between the Harvard Mark 1 Computer of the 1940s and
Intel's Chromebook laptop computer and newly released Compute Stick.
These days consumer focus is on portability so we purchase tablets, smartphones and laptops to make our lives accessible anywhere.
Although there have been many small computers released over the past few years (like Raspberry Pi and more recently Intel’s Compute Stick), there has yet to be a company that squeezes an entire PC into a desktop mouse.
A team of developers from Poland has created the Mouse-Box to rectify that.
The Mouse-Box.
The prototype looks and acts like a traditional computer mouse but also contains a processor, flash storage capabilities, an HDMI connection and Wi-Fi integration. In order to keep the computer so small, the team used a four-core 1.4GHz ARM Cortex processor.
While it’s connected to your computer, the Mouse-Box functions as a typical mouse, but the team has made possible to transfer all of your data to the device so you can hook it up to any screen and access your entire computer. As long as your monitor is equipped with an HDMI, VGA, or DVI port, you can transform it into your computer.
Inside the Mouse-Box.
The Mouse-Box will work with an inductive charging pad to eliminate the need for excessive charging wires and includes 128 GB of storage that can be expanded through a data cloud.
The Mouse-Box is still under development and currently no release date or prices have been revealed, but you can check out more about the prototype and progress on Mouse-Box’s website.
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