Pen PC - Pen Shaped little Personal Computer

Look closely and judge what they could be.

Are they pens with video equipment's?

Any wild judge? No hint yet?
You've just looked into the next generation... yep that's right!

In the gyration of miniature computers, scientists have made great developments with bluetooth technology.

According to this message, a series of attached photographs show a new idea in personal computing - a pen-shaped little PC that users operate via a virtual monitor and keyboard that the device projects onto any available flat surface. The message suggests that these handy pen-sized computers may be set to replace existing personal computers and laptops in the near future.

However, although a conceptual epitome of the "pen" computer was built in 2003, such devices are not yet available to buyer. The epitome device, dubbed the "P-ISM", was a "Pen-style Personal Networking Gadget" created in 2003 by Japanese technology company NEC. The P-ISM was faced at the 2003 ITU Telecom World held in Geneva, Switzerland.

The design concept uses five different pens to create a computer. One pen is a CPU, another camera, one creates a virtual keyboard, another does the visual output and thus the display and another communicator. All five pens can rest in a keeping block which recharges the batteries and holds the mass storage. Each pen communicates wireless, possibly Bluetooth.

It seems that information terminals are boundlessly getting smaller. However, we will continue to operate them with our hands for now. We have envisioned the connection between the latest technology and the human, in a form of a pen. P-ISM is a gadget package having five functions: a pen-style cellular phone with a handwriting data input function, virtual keyboard, a very little projector, camera and camera scanner, and personal ID key with cashless pass function. P-ISMs are attached with one another through short-range wireless technology. The whole set is also attached to the Internet through the cellular phone function. This personal gadget in a smallest pen style enables the ultimate ubiquitous computing.

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

While consumers can not yet purchase "pen" computers like the P-ISM, virtual projected keyboards like the ones exposed in the photographs are previously available from various companies including Lumio and Virtual Device Inc

It should be noted that the last two virtual keyboard photographs in the order were it seems that added later and do not depict the original P-ISM set up.