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by jay_kyburz 4160 days ago
yeah, why can't I plug my android phone into a large monitor and use it like a trackpad!
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morganvachon 4159 days ago
The Motorola Photon 4G had an entire Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distro packed into the ROM image, and they sold a docking station for it that basically turned the phone into a full fledged computer when connected to an HDMI capable monitor. Its cousin, the Atrix, did the same thing using a laptop-style dock.

A company called Cybernet has been putting full computers in keyboards since at least the early 90s (think Commodore 64 but with x86 guts).

In other words, this Mouse-Box is evolutionary, not revolutionary. I like it, but I'm not blown away.

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recursive 4159 days ago
I owned one of those and I never knew that.
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bane 4160 days ago
If you have something like an Nvidia Shield tablet, you can basically do this. Bonus, it has a stylus so you can use it as a drawing tablet.

There's also things like this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thingsstuf...

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