The deal is you write a 200 word essay, and if they pick your entry you get one of three VIA Eden EPIA Mini-ITX motherboards.
These are the 170mm x 170mm fanless embedded processing boards, builtin ethernet, graphics and sound and an embedded x86 processor running @ 800 mhz. the story is here http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/24679.html from looking at the specs it looks like it would take linux http://www.via.com.tw/en/VInternet/mini_itx.jsp The contest email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Eden in the subject line, as is typical you give up all rights to VIA for any entries submitted. It's got 4 usb ports so getting devices that connect to it should not be difficult. Hmm' reimplement the iLamp as a cheap X-terminal (could go for less than $500 including screen)... http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
