TurboLinux wizpy hits the ground running

Turbolinux’s wizpy is a new generation device which attempts to rewrite the definition, “PC2.0″ by unbundling the OS from the hardware.

With wizpy, the OS is no longer tied to the hardware and you can carry your Mail, Bookmarks, OS settings and History with you and and access them through any PC. According to the makers. “Important data such as passwords and credit card information may now need not be left on the PC but can be stored on wizpy, thus preventing your personal information from being compromised,” although if you lose your wizpy, it’s just as compromised.

The whole idea of a portable operating system is intriguing and the tiny wizpy also provides multimedia features such as an audio player, video player and FM radio. The current release holds only 4 GB which may or may not prove sufficient; no doubt there are larger versions in the pipeline, but it seems one of their goals is to have you store your data at their online facility, and speaking personally, I am not a big fan of this idea. If you take a look at the issues being created by Flickr selling off peoples photos, you have to question the safety of entrusting all your data to a third party.

Turbolinux are calling it an e-book as well, but with a screen size of a matchbox, I don’t think that’s a valid claim. Unfortunately, the entire concept is very poorly explained, but full details of this little device can be found here and there’s an good detailed write up here.