Internet appliance
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An Internet appliance is a consumer product which accesses services on the Internet, such as the World Wide Web or Internet telephony, but which is not a general-purpose computer and does not have a hard drive in general. The idea behind Internet appliances is that they can be made cheaper than general-purpose computers and by being dedicated to a single function they can be simpler to use. They constitute a specialized form of information appliance.
The first such appliances to be marketed successfully gave constant information on the weather or on the state of the stock market, by means of changes in colors or by using analog gauges.
Another type of Internet appliance is the Internet Tablet. The most famous (or infamous) examples of the Internet Tablet are the Sony Airboard and the recently unveiled Nokia 770.