PLX Technology shows off USB Duet-enabled UMPCs

PLX Technology is taking advantage of this week's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (otherwise known as WinHEC) to talk up its proprietary USB Duet technology, with TabletKiosk also helping out in showing off some of the UMPC-centric possibilities. As shown above, one potential application is a UMPC connected to an Xbox 360, with USB Duet working its magic to allow the UMPC to simply show up as a standard USB storage device. A UMPC could also be connected to a PC (though apparently not a Mac), sharing not only storage, but the PC's monitor, keyboard, and mouse as well. From the looks of it, TabletKiosk's eo TufTab v7112XT will be the first USB Duet-equipped UMPC although, interestingly, there was no mention of that particular feature when the device was first announced.

[Via Tablet PC Talk]

[bbarsh @ May 15th 2007 11:36PM]

Fancier version of firewire target disk mode? Or even SCSI in the old days. They keyboard mouse thing is cool though.

[Jim @ May 16th 2007 6:40AM]

360 sees this UMPC as USB storage?
Err...
Could this trick be borrowed to do the same with a PC?

[tiuk @ May 16th 2007 10:19AM]

Simply using it as storage on the 360 is a lot less exciting than I imagined when I first saw the picture.

[Ange @ May 16th 2007 10:30AM]

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