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The smallest web server yet has been built and is now running a website. It is one tenth the size of a Palm Pilot and dwarfed by a typical desktop computer, which is 3,000 times larger.

6.9 x 4.3 x 0.6 cm in size AMD 486-SX computer, 66 MHz CPU 16 MB RAM 16 MB flash ROM partial version of RedHat 5.2 Linux operating system 2 watts from a 5V power supply at 100% CPU usage Professor Pratt believes the biggest obstacle to a truly wearable computer is the lack of an easy, compact way of inputting data. Professor Pratt and doctoral student Greg Defouw are now working on a special glove that can recognize a digital sign language, called Thumbcode. The Wearables group is already working on a more powerful server, combining a credit-card-size Pentium motherboard with a new 340 MB hard drive from IBM that is a fraction of an inch thick and less than five centimetres on a side.

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