The Next Thing Co. a Oakland, California based company lunched a CHIP which is a microcomputer, on Kickstarter.It is a tiny computer that can support a full version of Linux.CHIP is smaller than a credit card which costs about $9.It allows user to check your email over wifi, surf the Web and play games with a Bluethooth option.
It comes with a 1 GHz processor, 512MB RAM and 4 GB storage capacity.It has a WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity.The presenter said, "the camera shifts to a mannequin's pocket.This is PocketCHIP. It makes CHIP portable. Take CHIP, put it into PocketCHIP and you can use CHIP anywhere."PocketCHIP has 4.3'' touchscreen, five hour battery and QWERTY keyboard.It also has LibreOffice that allows users save the documents to onboard storage.It comes with many preinstalled tools and applications.
A mouse or keyboard can be connected with CHIP wirelessly.CHIP ables to work with any VGA and HDMI monitors via built in composite output and add an adapter for monitor screen.CHIP has included many pre-installed apps such as scratch which is a language teaching programming that teaches basics of programming by games, stories and animations.
CHIP shipment will take place in May 2016.
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