Many of the little PC and tablet gadgets coming out of Taiwan and China can only be found and ordered off websites that look profoundly dodgy, but this $70 Android 4.0 PC on a stick is up and ready to pre-order off Amazon, which I have heard of.
Geeky Gadgets and a few other tech blogs are reporting on this little unit that looks to be the size of a feature phone and actually plugs in and powers off USB, so in THEORY this could be powered off a digital signage display panel, eliminating a cord. In theory …
This MK802 Android mini PC has a single-core 1.5GHz AllWinner A10 processor, supported by 512MB of memory.
At some point , the whole how small can you get thing gets a little silly – as comparably huge Mac Mini or Acer digital engine is still plenty small enough to locate right at a PC. But the price point thing is interesting. A retail price of $70 is with margin for the manufacturer and Amazon. The processor (Allwinner???) apparently would cost $10 or less.
Crazy.