The PC you'd have to be a real mug to buy

 

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By Barry Collins

Posted on 11 Feb 2008 at 08:45

A Californian student has designed a concept PC that allows you to pick up your emails with your morning pick-me-up.

The Yuno PC is a computer built into a coffee cup. The exterior of the mug doubles as a flexible OLED display that delivers a series of alerts.

So, for example, owners could check the status of their inbox, local traffic reports or the weather forecast, in between slurps of their morning brew. Owners can even choose their own images to act as a screensaver.

All the CPU hardware is stored in a detachable base, with data transferred to the device via a USB connection; although if ever a gadget was crying out for a Wi-Fi connection, this has to be it.

The Yuno's designer, Jason Farsai, is currently in his final semester at California State University, studying industrial design. His website claims that "our job as designers is to find the best solution to problems."

After countless hours of testing traditional coffee cups alongside our conventional PCs in the PC Pro office, we rather suspect he's found an answer to a problem that didn't exist, but full marks for ingenuity.