Hardware

Intel Core i7 Turbo Boost

Of all the new features in the Intel Core i7 processor, I’m most excited about Turbo Boost. You have got to love a machine that automatically pushes itself into overdrive. The Knight Rider reference certainly doesn’t hurt.

Turbo Boost should be especially useful for people who run various numbers of applications throughout the workday. Will you be getting a Core i7?

November 19, 2008 · 5 Comments (with 1 Conversation)

Minority Report Computer

Think of it as the Power Glove with big-screen TVs. One of the science advisors on Minority Report, John Underkoffler, founded a company called Oblong Industries to make Tom Cruise’s fancy computers a reality. The result is G-speak, a spatial operating system using huge monitors and clunky mittens.

Sure, spatial computing looks impractical now, but so did multitouch early last year. Now it’s on iPhones.

November 19, 2008 · 3 Comments (with 1 Conversation)