We all knew it was heading in this direction, but we didn’t think it would come from a relative unknown. Zonbu announces the first computer that has everything - except - storage. You store all of your data - all of it - online, on the Zonbu servers.

The concept of the Linux based Zonbu is that you get a tiny PC - so small that you can hold it in one hand - which has all the whizbang and connectors you need to allow you to connect whatever you want to it to your heart’s content (iPod, camera, you name it - it has 6 USB ports onboard). What it doesn’t have is a hard drive, although it does have flash memory, to which it does automatic backups of your vital data.

Instead, you store all of your data online, on the Zonbu servers.

This, they explain, gives you the advantage of being able to access your data from anywhere.

It also gives you the disadvantage that all of your personal data is online, at the mercy of whatever Zonbu has in place to protect it.

Zonbu is pushing this as the green alternative to a desktop - with no drive and thus no fan, the Zonbu is ultra quiet and, they claim, will run on just a tenth of the power required by a traditional PC.

Of course, what you save in energy costs you’ll more than make up for by paying the monthly fee to, you know, access your data. Which runs between $12.95 and $15.95 a month.

You can go here to check out the Zonbu.