Norwegian company FXI TECH is working on an interesting bit of idea for a portable computer, which they are calling Cotton Candy. The device will be about the size of a USB pen-drive and according to the company website, it will be powered by quad-core ARM (Mali-400MP) processor with access to 1GB of RAM.
Cotton Candy will have an HDMI-out to connect to an external display, while data I/O and power supply will be via a USB port. The device will be without any built-in storage, but it will sport a microSD slot capped at 64GB. For over the air communication, the Cotton Candy will come with Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR. The device will be capable of running Android, Ubuntu (Linux) and virtual client for Windows. In theory, the device will be capable of churning out videos at 1080p resolution.
The concept of Cotton Candy is similar to another project in the works called Raspberry Pi which is being developed using ARM (Broadcom BCM2835) architecture to run Linux on a device that is about the size of a credit card and will cost between $25 and $35. Cotton Candy does not have a release date and the price is expected to be under $200
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