We received two unusual little devices for review this month: the PlugMate and the PlugClaw, both built by TrustKernel, a security company better known for the trusted-execution tech inside other people’s phones than for consumer gadgets. Each is a complete, self-contained computer the size of a USB stick (its own processor, memory, and encrypted storage) that runs a private, hardened Android system called PlugOS. You plug one into your phone, tablet, or computer, and that host lends it a screen, a keyboard, and a network connection. Nothing of yours crosses over. The easiest way to picture it: it’s a little computer (or more accurately, the hardware of a small phone) that borrows your screen, mouse, keyboard, and other peripherals to interact with you. IT folks will be tempted to compare it to a virtual machine, and the analogy isn’t bad, except that nothing here is virtual. It’s real, separate silicon; […]
PlugMate and PlugClaw Review – Thumb-sized Android-based private computers with optional Ubuntu/OpenClaw support
