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Pandora opens box, finds world's most powerful handheld console
T3.com All — ... and a PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 powering a Linux operating system. The screen is a 4.3", 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen LCD. Connectivity includes 802.11b/g, Bluetooth and USB. Alongside a full QWERTY keyset you'll find dual analogue and digital gaming controls. The best bit though? The price is far from punishing at 199. Pre-orders for Pandora's box of homebrew goodies will be opening on September 30th with deliveries expected around Chrimbo. Now, about that Dreamcast emulator... Pandora (via ...

Opening Pandora’s box - the modern tale of a democratically erected computer
The Red Ferret Journal - gadgets, cool sites, freeware and tech trivia — Pandora2 The Pandora handheld computer is being marketed as the ultimate open source portable computer. It runs Linux ( natch) has super powerful graphics capabilities, features a 10 hour battery life, twin SD slots, full game controls and is around the size of a Nintendo DS. What makes it different is the fact that it s being crowdsourced developed with a team of people and lots of community input. Hence the focus on gaming as well as boring old conventional computing. The current order price is 199.00 and the first batch should be shipping before year end. Pandora Looking at ...

Pandora The OMAP3 powered handheld Linux console
MAKE Magazine — Pandora, the open, highly hackable console is available for pre-order, looks pretty nice. Not open source hardware, but not too shabby! More @ wikipedia and their site... The Pandora system will have an open source, Linux-based OS. The Pandora is designed to be a handheld game console, with PDA capabilities. One of the main uses of the Pandora is for homebrew gaming and the emulation of older computer systems and video game consoles, which is possible through efficient use of the resources made available by the Texas Instruments ...

Myvu display in a wearable computer
MAKE Magazine — ... The computer itself will be the Pandora, for the simple reason that I was buying it anyway :) . I could certainly buy a simpler system with no internal screen, but using the Pandora has the nice benefit that there will be a user community for it, and if I feel like playing a game I'll have the game controls available. Hopefully I can turn off the internal screen in software to massively boost the battery life ... I imagine this must be possible since it should be usable as an MP3 player. The Pandora won't be shipping 'til mid-January at least. ...

Pandora open-source console gets first video demo
SlashGear — ... we’ve seen in a user’s hands.  The DIY console went up for pre-order last September, and since then has been pretty much off the radar; now we get to see one of the first put together and ...

Video: Pandora hardware prototype demoed
Engadget — ... We've seen Pandora (in various build states) doing a few things on video in the past but we have never -- and we mean never -- seen it playing a Sonic the Hedgehog game. Actually, what we're looking at is a nearly complete prototype of ...

OpenPandora finally demoed
The Gadgets Weblog — ... OpenPandora is a peice of kit I have been tracking for a while. It takes the form of a seriously mini laptop, running a linux variation on a speedy little ARM processor, while allowing completely free, open development. The result is going to be a system filled to the brim with awesome homebrew emulators and the like. It's the virtual successor to the much heralded GP32 and GP2X. The video is available over at engadget , and you can check out more details of the handheld here .

pandora open source handheld design gets updated
technabob — ... Yeah, it’s all a bit clunky at this stage, but if you’re into game emulation and the homebrew scene, the Pandora is definitely one to watch. All signs point to a first half of 2009 release for the Pandora, but given some false starts back at the end of 2008, there isn’t an official launch date yet. More details can be found on the Pandora website. ...

Dual touchscreen laptop concept suddenly attractive when you add World of Warcraft
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... link to the stuff we do on these sites even though they really like us to do so. In this case, I actually just discovered Niero's post when it had a hundred-some-odd comments and thought, What has that crafty bastard done now? Couple that with my unfortunate recent inkling to play WoW again, and it's enough to make me think that I could live without a proper keyboard if it were this were my little dedicated gaming machine. (I wonder how WoW would run on an Open Pandora?) ...