The Jack-PC

Here's a funky little device - a PC that you mount in the wall like a power or ethernet socket. It's designed to be a network PC, running Windows CE and a browser. It's tiny, and it uses Power over Ethernet to run (thus no extra power connection).

Places that have their acts together using all browser based applications, combined with Citrix or similar for accessing desktop software servers with Office and related boring applications, will drool over these for reducing help desk calls, installation complexities, and basically removing the user's ability to do anything useful with his/her PC. Big sites love that stuff.

You might see these things in corporates and probably in shopfronts (especially banks?). Or you might not see them, which is kind of the point.