The Nivo is a new 'ultra thin' client device under development by British, not-for-profit organization Ndiyo. Its principle intended market is developing nations and the project is based upon a non-profit model. The aim of the project is to create hardware and software that can lower both financial and technical skill cost of computer service provision.
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There was an interesting article about Ndyio in the Guardian newspaper a couple of weeks ago, which suggests that the Nivo is more of a tiny VNC client than a thin client. I thought killermike's article was great, but also felt it didn't really highlight this as a major difference between the Nivo and traditional thin clients. This really is the thinest of thin.
The Guardian article also points out that they've had "fullscreen DVDs playing down an Ndiyo link", which sounds very impressive to me.
I also think it's intersting that they're integrating this technology directly into screens. I could imagine a time when you can't buy a monitor that doesn't have this built in, and I think that would be great.
Anyway, here's that article for anyone interested:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/02/guardianweeklytech...
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2006-04-14
Is this basically a hardware VNC in a box? Looks like its a project run by Quentin Stafford-Fraser, trojan coffee pot fame
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html
co-inventor of VNC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Network_Computing
and recently a founder of displayLink
http://www.displayLink.com.