After the PDA, the Personal Server

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

It's essentially a hard disk with 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 to carry around my desktop environment if I used a at work... Thing is - what's the battery life?

You know you play too much ...

...when you buy one of these: