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Small Supercomputer, XPC, Notebook, and Gaming Thingy

Posted by jamie on from the four-in-one dept.

kidgenius, SpinnerBait, and anonymous readers wrote in with four fun tales of small devices doing cool things. IBM has built a supercomputer the size of a TV, using 1000 PPC-based CPUs. Shuttle recently began shipping their AMD Athlon 64 based XPC, the size of a breadbox. Sony has a new 0.4" thick VAIO notebook (scroll down). And a European company is about to introduce the Gametrac, a handheld WinCE gaming gadget with 3D, Bluetooth, SMS, MP3 playback, MPEG4 video playback, camera, and -- interestingly -- GPS tracking. "The system allows the parents to establish 'fences,' which, when entered by the child, cause a notification to be sent to the parents in the form of either an SMS message or an email." Hmmm.

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  1. smaller is not always better by anomalous+cohort · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Remember the sub-notebook? It was a little bigger than a handheld but with the software of a laptop. I really thought that was going to take off but it never did.