The idea of computers in the electrical socket takes you to the world of imagination & sci-fi movies. But Marvell Technology general public Ltd., is soon going to launch on a computing device like this named plug computers.

Marvell Technology general public Ltd., a company that makes chips for a range of high tech Downloads, communications equipment, cellphones, etc, has planned to launch a new kind of Laptop. The company has named it “Plug Computers”. Like its name this device would be plugged in to home electrical sockets & would be of socket like size. Yet it will have enough power to manage user's digital media & enable them to view it over the Internet from outside the home.

In today's digital world we store each & every information in the digital form as texts, images, videos in digital cameras, cellphones, Notebook. In such a way we are storing our personal information in dispersed style – in the form of files, that make them inefficient as well as risky. Losing a laptop or mobile phone will cost us losing a precious photo or video.

Marvell is promoting the "plug computers" as a perfect solution for this. The idea is to have an ultra-small Laptop plugged into an electrical socket. Despite the small size the plug Laptop will have enough processing power & network connectivity to manage & serve media stored on an attached thumb-drive or hard drive. You can access the plug Laptop over your home network, enabling you to get at your files from wherever you needed in your house.

However this idea is not new and Apple's Time Capsule works a little like that. It acts like a central repository for data by wirelessly backing up all the connected Macs. HP's MediaSmart Servers are a host of "smart" external hard drives connecting a PC via USB & store your media longterm, & serve it to connected TVs & audio systems without needing the PC's intervention.

Marvel is planning to miniaturize all this technology & make it small & convenient. The company is also emphasizing on the green aspects as well by maintaining the eco friendliness of the plan. Plug computers are supposed to draw less than 5W of power that is much less compared to a PC running as a media server.