I don’t know if this should be called a PC or not, but the Cuppa is definitely worth a mention, it’s one of the finalist designs in this year’s NextGen PC Design Competition. Though it’s only a concept, basically it is a computer just designed for those who want to socialise, have an enjoyable time and nothing else. Yes, our PCs nowadays allows us to socialise as well, but it is also argueable that our present PCs also bring us alot of other boring applications that make us work (like a whole set of Microsoft Office for example). The idea behind Cuppa is, wouldn’t it be great if we could just sit down and enjoy using a device that would allow us to just chat and relax with our friends online without having the annoying compulsive thought that you should do some work while you’re at the computer anyway?

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Cuppa is an innovative design to solve the task of socially connecting. Cuppa is the bridge between desktop and mobile phone, Cuppa is designed to be used in the home, but takes the user out of the boring offices that they currently use for messaging and socializing . Cuppa is a smart device, and will adapt to its location in the house, you go into the lounge and the tv will offer to extend your content. Cuppa continues to add the social by allowing unlimited social tagging of product and devices which can be read by Cuppa. You no longer need to give a file, you give need to give a Cuppa Rfid chip, which will access the data from the super computer.

Apart from the fact that I like the idea of Cuppa, the technology behind it is also quite impressive, it’s thin, low power supply requirement, with small CPU, a cool looking keyboard plus OLED next to it and of course a size that I would gladly accept to have in my living room.

[via NextGen]