News at 11: At trade show, major company shows off cool prototype it will never sell

Posted by Rob Beschizza, September 30, 2008 5:19 AM | permalink

"First of all," warns Ubergizmo, "this media server is a concept, not a commercial product."

And yet it has specifications. [Ubergizmo]

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#1 posted by MrWeeble , September 30, 2008 5:46 AM

Looks like it would be a fingerprint magnet, but who wouldn't want a dodecahedral box sitting in their lounge. I would call mine Dodo!

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#2 posted by word_virus , September 30, 2008 11:23 AM

Hehe. It's like the unholy love-child of Swarovski and Sun Microsystems!

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#3 posted by Halloween Jack , September 30, 2008 11:30 AM

Toshiba Media Server is made of redshirt!

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#4 posted by TedJohnson , September 30, 2008 12:37 PM

If you shake it, does it tell your fortune?

Seriously: This looks like one of the cheap desk calendar doodads that banks used to give a way.

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#5 posted by OM

, September 30, 2008 1:10 PM

...And if you push the right buttons, it turns into a Starfleet Redshirt who thought she was dead!

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#6 posted by muteboy , September 30, 2008 2:05 PM

It looks like a Draconian super weapon from Buck Rogers, or the Visitor self-destruct thing from V. Is Glen Larson missing a prop?

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#7 posted by Anonymous , October 1, 2008 5:34 AM

This is almost a spitting image of the EPICAC from the Vonnegut show of his story!

I own it on commercial DVD, bought from the bottom of the $3 bin at Giant Tiger! Woohoo!

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#8 posted by trr , October 1, 2008 3:07 PM

dodecahedron (a Platonic solid) != cubeoctahedron (an Archimedean solid)