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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. Size of a television.... by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you know how useless that tidbit of information is? Televisons come in many different sizes, from the very small to the very large. What's the size in standard 19 inch units?