After the PDA, the Personal Server

The Slashdot crowd is raving about a personal server being developed by Intel Research ([whitepaper][ps-whitepaper], [UBICOMP 2002 submission paper][ps-ubicomp]).

It’s essentially a hard disk with Bluetooth[networking/bluetooth] connectivity, which eerily reminds me of The Register’s story about a Bluetooth iPod.

It also seems like a useful concept. Heck, I’d use my iPod to carry around my desktop environment if I used a Mac at work… Thing is - what’s the battery life?

…when you buy one of these:

[ps-whitepaper]: http://www.speakeasy.org/~roywant/papers/Personal Server (short paper).PDF [ps-ubicomp]: http://www.speakeasy.org/~roywant/papers/ubicomp02 (2 col) RWant-249.pdf