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Toshiba Uses Cell Chip In Consumer Laptop

Posted by kdawson on from the thinking-outside-the-cell dept.

An anonymous reader sends us to CNET UK's Crave blog, where they report on a demo from CES. So far the only uses for Cell chips have been research stuff and the PS3. Now Toshiba has put a Cell chip into a consumer laptop; they are calling it the Spurs Engine. "The system was demonstrated in modified Qosmio G45 laptops, each of which uses a standard Intel Core 2 Duo CPU in addition to a Cell chip with four 1.5GHz synergistic processing elements (SPEs). Toshiba had four demos running... Demo 3... scans all your movie files, recognizes faces, and creates thumbnails of those faces. You can then click the thumbnails to watch scenes with those faces in, or compile them in a separate playlist."

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  1. ahh so many uses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    how much will this get used to just play that one scene for your final porn watching ending?

  2. You sonuvabitch! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I bet you're the jackass editor who keeps putting clips of close ups of just faces in my porn. You better hope I, and a soon to be gigantic and bloodthirsty mob, don't find where you live! I knew you'd slip up one day, you bastard.

  3. Demo 3... by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "... scans all your movie files, recognizes faces, and creates thumbnails of those faces. You can then click the thumbnails to watch scenes with those faces in, or compile them in a separate playlist." So Sony have created a chip and software combo which rips all the spooge scenes out of your pr0n? Classy.

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    1. Re:Demo 3... by SirLoadALot · · Score: 2, Funny

      The summary only mentions Demo 3. Here are the others:

      Demo 1 is the lonely Demo of all.

      Demo 2 is a brute force MD5 cracker, so Toshiba can screw up SquirrelMail for reals next time.

      Demo 4 works the same as Demo 3, but replace "face" with "nipple".

      Demo 5 scans your music collection for Paris Hilton and, if found, e-mails your entire address book to let them know how bad you suck.

      We don't talk about Demo 6.

      Demo 7 burns with the rage of a thousand suns.

      Demo 8 performs MPEG2 compression in both little and big endian -- just 'cause.

      Demo 9 remixes all your audio files with samples from the Captain Picard song.

      Demo 10 indexes your porn by hair colour.

  4. Great Demo... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...too bad it only recognizes faces. Would be great for my pr0n collection.

  5. think of the possibilities by philmack · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm totally going to buy one of these just to sort my porn collection

  6. M$ should be happy . . . by thesuperbigfrog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally there's a laptop that can give you the Windows Vista Aero experience as Microsoft intended!

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  7. Re:Just two letters short of... by kernspaltung · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously, I'm in dire need of this new laptop and its awesome computational capability.