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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. this story by Jamie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...our only female /. editor..

  2. 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?

  3. AOL News Followup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    AOL News is doing a follow-up article

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  4. Re:allows parents. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you misunderstand - the concern by most of the inbred pedophiles here is that this will allow parents to protect their children from predators like Michael and Jon Katz. Just like library filters - they don't really care as much about free speech as they do about having a place to download jap scat porn.

  5. Re:These gaming systems are a godsend! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    dear god you are suck a cock-gobbler