Dell’s experimental ‘computer-on-a-stick’ shipping to developers in July

Dell’s experimental ‘computer-on-a-stick’ shipping to developers in July:
One of the most intriguing concepts for the future of the PC industry we've heard lately has been Dell's Project Ophelia, a USB thumb drive-sized "computer-on-a-stick" that can plug into any monitor's USB port to transform it into a makeshift computer capable of running multiple operating systems. PCWorld reports that an early version of Ophelia that will only run Android will ship out to developers starting in July and could ship out to consumers as soon as August. The first version of Ophelia "will have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities and is aimed at users who do most of their computing on the Web," says PCWorld, which means that monitors using Ophelia will be more like Chromebooks than traditional PCs.

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