The little wall plug shown to you here is a complete computer that runs Linux operating system. It’s a new era of computing – the plug computing, which has been brought to us by Marvell. The little device is called SheevaPlug. It’s a computer that is just in the size of a wall plug and it’s plugged into a standard wall socket of your home, being your home server to serve you and your loved ones.
The Marvell SheevaPlug is claimed to consume only one tenth of the power of a typical PC while running as a home server. So, it can be plugged into one of your home’s wall sockets to keep it always on. Inside the little plug are an ARM-based 1.2GHz Sheeva embedded processor, 512MB of DDR2 memory, 512MB of flash storage, gigabit ethernet and USB 2.0. SheevaPlug hooks up to external hard drive via its USB port, and connects to your home network via its gigabit Ethernet interface.
This little wall plug computer also comes with development kit, which allows developers to develope innovative software and services in the home or small offices. Currently, the SheevaPlug is priced at $99 for some initial models, Marvell may drop it to $49 only later.
We’ve seen before at CES 2009, the PogoPlug, a little device that turns any USB hard drive into a NAS, was also built based on the Marvell’s plug computing.
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