It looks like a uConsole
there seem to be a whole a bunch of these projects now
A portable keyboard and a Steamdeck are a better choice.
This way I can play Halo while deploying or when the Sales Dude complains about the website.
Steam Deck is a really under appreciated Linux machine in my opinion.
It’s an amazing device. Playing games, then watching movies from my home server on the plane when I travel, then plugging in a keyboard mouse and monitor and using it as my sole work machine at the remote office.
The desktop environment is solid, everything is there that I need.
ALSO: International travel, it basically gets ignored as anything more than a game machine.
oh I didn’t even consider the last bit
Yeah hell naw lol. I need an actual keyboard.
What is this, a portable workstation for ants?
The company’s website is currently collecting email signups for early-bird pricing. Pricing has not been announced. Neither have display resolution, exact dimensions, weight, or the availability of expansion ports.
So all we know is that some company wants to sell something at some point in the future.
Those things would need to be actually better than an Android phone with Termux.
‘extensive coding sessions’ … with your thumbs? No thanks.
Sorry for no transcript :(
Transcript of above image:
It’s 2026, do you even need a full keyboard anymore? This year’s badge is a three-key USB macro pad with only the keys that matter for Al-assisted programming: Y, 2, and Enter. Yes, allow it. Always allow. Submit. You’ve just approved every suggestion, every file edit, every tool call.
Congratulations, you’re a 10x engineer now! This year’s badge is built around a PIC16F1455 with USB-C HID. The board lights up with 25 addressable RB LEDs 22 side-mount SK6812s for edge glow and 3 WS2812B per-key backlights. Kailh hot-swap sockets let you bring your own switches. Now that you’re the most productive person at your company, you can focus on enjoying the conference!
Could sub Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V and Enter and be an old school dev ;)
Thank you so much!
For extensive coding sessions, real developers remove their thumbs
Uhhh you haven’t configured an Xbox controller for keyboard inputs?
Wow, coding on the worst physical topology/topography for the kind of input you need to perform.
A programmer needs to type fast, navigate the cursor rapidly and with easily attained precision, and needs the information displayed on a large screen so that they don’t go blind working on the code. This machine is a friggin nightmare.
you’d think so as i did, yet people wanted to do it on their blackberry’s back when i did front line tech support.
Wanted to, but how many ppl actually did and were productive?
it was my job back then to enable them as much as possible, so i looked for their perforce submits for follow up and every single one of them did.
most of them did it while on ultra long flights to korea/japan/singapore/tiawan/isreal from san francisco too… on a blackberry. 🤷♂️
That’s pretty cool. I will say that a little productivity is better than none.
that was the logic that most of them used and i get it a little bit if you’re on 20+ hour flight when laptop batteries lasted less than 2 hours back then, but the thought of writing code in one of these makes my hand hurt:
i supposed it wasn’t so bad for the python or ruby guys, but they were in the minority at the time. most were writing in java and that seems painful with all of the non-romantic characters that it requires wo an ide; atleast this lini device has full keyboard w curly braces.
I had to manage with one of these things:
At least it ran Linux. The one thing the Zaurus had going for it though? Completely readable in sunlight. It was amazing at the time.
at least w linux, there’s a chance you could use and ide – even if it’s only vim or emacs. lol
the blackberry guys were literally just using a text editor. it ever ceased to be amazed at the level of dedication those people had to their jobs.
This article feels like it was written by ai and this product, while cute, is almost completely useless.
I was thinking the same, but also thinking the product itself is ai. Seemed odd the article doesn’t link to the company site.
It almost seems like it appeared out of no where. Top search result is a mastadon account that registered 2-3weeks back. Their website doesn’t even appear in searches.
Have we reached the point of circularity. Ai creating products to then write blog posts about. Just infinite hype with no real content/products.
Cheaper than having real products and trying to sell them, I guess
Hype is where the real money is made, anyway. Just need to build up enough hype to lure in the venture capital bros, then run off with their money and let the project crash and burn.
Its the new american dream!
Horrifyingly, this is a valid point.
1993 wants its prototype back
I guarantee this will cost more and be less hackable than the offerings from ClockworkPi
It would probably make a good terminal if it had an RS-232 serial port. The CM5 would be overkill for that. A Pi Zero would be sufficient and a lot less power hungry.
There’s no way I’m going to be doing much typing on that tiny keyboard though.
Should have made it foldable. Like early mobile phones…
Miss my Zaurus clamshell (don’t forget the rotating hinge for tablet mode and a pen), definitely was ‘Actually Carry’.
Why is this idea so hard, it’s the difference between pocketable and not.
Never heard of this device, it’s really cool! Surprisingly similar to the QTek 9000/O2 XDA Exec/i-mate JasJar
Or a Nintendo DS. Or the ill-fated OpenPandora
You mean like uConsole?
