Now that title may be a mouthful but Ericsson are hoping to bring this to the technology table. Quite a suprising announcement from Ericsson shows that they are developing a “spider pc” – a tiny computer that will fit within your pocket, using a projected keyboard and display (pico projector based) it can effectively be an office, laptop or pc, anywhere.

Now when we say bring to market, we don’t mean anytime soon, which is good – because realistically to have enough umpf (technical term for GB’s of quality highspeed ram and cores and cores of good cpu’age) a pc needs to at least have circutry as big as a netbook (and they still arent high powered.) I am not saying its not possible to have a pocket size pc with a bit of power, I just think realistically it might take us a few years to get Quantum computing that small :p

This Pico projector powered pc from Ericsoon was released at Taiwan’s Broadband show and uses the combination of a fair quality pico projector and a Laser keyboard to create an input output environment for the end user, pretty neat but not a new concept. Laser keyboards have been around for quite a while, they never really won over anyone except the hard core geek, potentially because they suffer an ultimate flaw. The reason the mouse and keyboard have lasted so long is they work. The mouse takes all the control of a human hand and places it visibily on a mouse pointer the size of 16 square pixels. The keyboard uses repeated positioning, labelled keys and a tactile feeling to identify letters and let you input them. Laser keyboards lack both these sorts of input if you ask us, you need to be able to see what your clicking on or feel where your hitting with your fingers, when windows pull their finger out (probably will be some linux dev first) and bring us a multi touch OS – then we will be talking touchpad’s for keyboards, but thats tommorows world – back to the pico projector powered pc.

Launched to show what Ericsson believes life will be like in 2020 this device is really more of a flirt with the idea, it lacks network connectivity, decent battery life and projecting power, but still its nice to see these technology companies showing the end users who walk past what they will be using (before) 2020.