[kanobo]

Site is down. The words 'WiFi-enabled SD card' makes my imagination flow. I think in the future you'll have one SD card with all the electronics/computing power and you just insert it into various dummy devices to change it's capabilities.

[_jal]

The original NeXT vision was optical drives. You'd keep your $HOME directory on one and plug in to whatever machine you were in front of.

I remember when the iPhone came out, I wondered if the idea would be updated, but no.

Of course the world went more in the direction of Sun's network computer/JavaStation idea, where other people's computers substitute for the optical/SD card.

[pxeboot]

There was a "Home on iPod" feature available in at least a beta version of OS X [1]. I remember testing it at one point.

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/03/12/01/apple_tweaking_ho...

[threeio]

i remember that feature and dreaming of how awesome it would be... sigh.

[netsharc]

As Lammy said, it's not new. There was Eye-Fi, which was an SD card for cameras, but with a WiFi module so you can grab pictures off it from your computer. And there was SDIO, which was a WiFi module for your non-WiFi Palm Pilot, which you'd plug into your SD card slot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCqn_WpFSH4

And, you can even reprogram the microcontroller inside seemingly normal (micro-)SD cards: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

[Lammy]

Search ‘SDIO’ as a starting point :)

[l00sed]

That is a sick idea. Just saw another post today about a pure JS os. Really interesting thought.