Tetherless Computing Blog

PC + DVD + TV

Prof. Raj Reddy, from CMU, now based at CMU West in Mountain View, California, has come up with a $250 wirelessly networked combo device. It is not mobile, but may be the right 'shell' into which you can plug in an 'almost always in-sync iPod'. The idea here is to keep all your data in an iPod like device (perhaps the 2TB card) and wirelessly synchronize it with data in a data center (using something like TierStore) as you go past a hotspot. This is the main idea in Tetherless Computing. This storage device can then be plugged into a 'compute shell', perhaps Prof. Reddy's device, to provide instant access to a computer that has exactly your data. This is similar in concept to Internet Suspend and Resume, but with the added ability to keep your data in sync using opportunistic networking.

posted by S. Keshav @ Tuesday, August 17, 2004