Need an extra arm?

Arm cpu's have been around a while. Actually a lot of your home routers are using the Arm processor as the brain. Some of them have enough hardware so that you can run alternative operating systems based on 'nix such as dd-wrt, openwrt, and a host of others. I am also acquainted with the Arm processor in the Cisco Linksys Nslu2. it ran at a whopping 100 or so megahertz. Even at that speed I was able to run the Debian flavor of Linux on it. It was a real computer. Used it as a web server, music server, and etc. Had an old unix terminal connected to it as the front end. Wish I had a picture of it with the tiny server and bulky terminal sitting working together. Still have the Nslu2, but put the original firmware back on it. Since then I put linux back on it.

It will interesting to see what is going to happen with these Arm units. Even the Arduino, a hobbyist micro-controller board will eventually have an arm processor version. It is more than likely that you will have a wearable computer within the next year. Those will be an interesting challenge to the now popular touch pads. Saw an article a while back where you could use any surface as a keyboard or a monitor. In, fact with technology like the Kinect, keyboards and or the touchpads as we know them could be obsolete very soon. As they say, "you aint seen nuthin yet...."