BBC NEWS | Technology | Net-powered computer goes on show
UK firm DSP Design has made a PC that gets electric power via a network cable rather than through a wall socket. Before now power via a network system has only been used for devices such as wireless access points, CCTV cameras and (Voip) internet telephone handsets. DSP said it expected their new PC to find uses where it was hard to lay any kind of cable other than computer network cables.
Great innovation and more interesting news near the end of the report on Power over Ethernet Plus which could lead to most if not all PCs being powered this way.