Net-powered computer goes on show

This would certainly give networking a real boost. To actually power a PC from a network; well, that is just bizarre to me. Still, if we can pull it off and it proves to be of benefit, then more power to the concept.

UK firm DSP Design has made a PC that gets electric power via a network cable rather than through a wall socket.

Before now power via a network system has only been used for devices such as wireless access points, CCTV cameras and (Voip) internet telephone handsets.

DSP said it expected their new PC to find uses where it was hard to lay any kind of cable other than computer network cables.

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The net-powered PC has come out of a project to create specifications for powering almost any kind of computer hardware through Ethernet cables.

Ethernet is the name given to the most widely used way of connecting computers together into local networks. [Read the rest]