Ask HN: Data Center Hardware - Start Up Idea

I don’t roam around data centers much anymore, but one thing I recall from the emergancy visits is a “Crash Cart.” Basically a keyboard, mouse and monitor on a card that you push down the row, plugin and off you go.

Configuring a server now I’ve got a monitor and keyboard plugged into it, but I’ll have to move it soon and I started thinking about what a pain in the rear it is to move hardware around when you need to see what’s going on with a headless server.

The idea:

Imagine a laptop. Now instead of ports that you plug stuff into, imagine retractable cables in the back.

A VGA, DVI, PS2 (maybe?) and USB cables that you plug into a server and the laptop essentially becomes the monitor, keyboard and mouse. All running off a battery.

Of course there are other methods to manage this type of situation from a DRAC card to just a normal ethernet port and a VNC client, but from a pure hardware standpoint, I imagine this might be very useful to some data centers.

What do you think of the idea?

If you build it... give me one. :)