Desk Terminal

The Desk Terminal is a palm-sized mini retro computer that acts as an ambient status display, showing the clock, the weather or whatever single number you keep checking on a small colour LCD. It joins your Wi-Fi and runs from USB-C, so it lives permanently beside the monitor as a second tiny screen you never have to manage.

What is the Desk Terminal?

A miniature computer styled after an all-in-one desktop from 1984: teal-blue body, coarse grey front bezel, vent slits down the side, a small colour LCD set behind a recessed frame, and a green indicator bar glowing on the lower front. A speaker and microphone are built in.

What is the Desk Terminal for?

An ambient second screen for the one value you would otherwise keep a browser tab open for — build state, queue depth, deploy status, the time. It is also the most photogenic object in this batch, which is not a specification but is honestly why most people buy it.

How do you use the Desk Terminal?

1. Power the Desk Terminal over USB-C.
2. Join it to your Wi-Fi network.
3. Choose what the screen shows, such as a clock-and-status face.
4. Leave it beside the monitor and stop opening that tab.

Desk Terminal specifications

How does the Desk Terminal compare?

Against the Status Light, the Desk Terminal trades instant legibility for flexibility. The light tells you one thing perfectly from ten feet away. The Desk Terminal shows arbitrary information but you have to look at it properly to read it. Most desks have room for both.

Frequently asked questions

What can the Desk Terminal display?

Anything you can push to a small networked screen: a clock, weather, build or deploy status, queue depth. The stock firmware ships with clock and status faces.

Is the Desk Terminal a voice assistant?

It can be. There is a speaker and a microphone on board and the manufacturer sells it partly as a voice assistant. In practice most buyers leave it on a status face.

What language is the interface in?

The stock firmware is the manufacturer's and parts of its menus are in Chinese. We would rather tell you that now than have you discover it after delivery.

What to know before buying

The stock firmware is the manufacturer's, and some menu text is in Chinese. Everything the screen displays in normal use is language-neutral, but the setup menus are not.

Ships in 1–2 days · delivers in 7–12, tracked. You get the tracking link the minute it exists. Free shipping over $75, thirty-day returns, one-year warranty.