The TVBrick is a device targetted at ex-pats. You buy a TVBrick and plug it into a friend's antenna back in your homeland and connect it to the Internet. Then, you move off to some other place and use your Internet connection to watch all the shows being aired back home. The manufacturer calims to be adding VoIP and home-media-server options soon, too.
TVBrick uses the Linux Open Source / Free Operating System developped by American, European and Japanese engineers. The TVBrick appliance is based on the OpenBrick platform (www.openbrick.org). Because it includes no fan, no hard disk and no moving parts, TVBrick is 100% silent and can be operated 24 hours a day. This is a major difference with other Home Servers: the use of TVBrick when you stay abroad will not disturb your family asleep because TVBrick simply makes absolutely no noise.
(via Gizmodo)
