USB-Based NIC Torrents While Your PC Sleeps

Posted by kdawson on Monday April 27, 2009 @01:47PM from the talking-in-your-sleep dept.

jangel sends us to WindowsForDevices.com for news on a prototype device created by researchers from Microsoft and UC San Diego. It's a USB-based NIC that includes its own ARM processor and flash storage, and can download files or torrent while a host PC is sleeping. As a result, its inventors say, the "Somniloquy" device slashes power usage by up to 50x. The device requires a few tweaks on the host OS side save state before sleeping. The prototype works with a Vista host but the hardware comprising the NIC is based on a Linux stack. Here is the research paper (PDF).

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Re:I suppose I am not by Anonymous Coward · 2009-04-27 14:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Air Force One did 9/11!!!
blarg by Anonymous Coward · 2009-04-27 21:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

that's amazing! score one for UCSD!
"Sucking all the band" ? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-04-27 23:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I play in a popular music combo and I wish to purchase one of these machines that "is sucking all the band".
This could save us a fortune in STD related medial treatments :)