Attack of the Handy-Pack Wall Jack PC

They'll stuff computers in everything, and the multiplying cohort (it's not a horde yet) of bizarre small form-factor PCs reaches an electrifying apotheosis in the JackPC, an Israel-made computer designed to be embedded in drywall.

Makers ChipPC haven't cooked this up for home use, as it's a terminal system with no hard drive, designed to connect to a server before doing much of anytthing. That is to say, the JackPC is basically a monitor port and usb hub to which you attach a screen and input devices, and voila instant computer. It simply takes the thin-client computing model and embeds it in the wall.

So, it's actually quite boring, and, at $400 and up, an expensive kind of boring. But it's also a cool kind of boring. Specs after the fold.

The units utilise the latest AMD Au 1550 RISC processors running at either 333 or 500MHz. That’s the equivalent of a 800MHz or 1.2GHz x86 desktop processor. They have either 32 or 64MB flash memory to store the operating system (Windows CE .NET 4.2/5) and 64 or 128MB RAM. They can be powered either through a plug on the front or, ideally, using Power over Ethernet (PoE).

The JackPC, A PC You Can Embed In Your Wall [OhGizmo!]