CeBIT 2008 Day 2 - OCZ's Mind Controllable Mouse, ASUS' HDMI Sound Card, Intel and more
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 5, 2008 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Sun Brings up a Valid Point
The most expensive hall at CeBIT is Hall 2, home of companies such as Sun Microsystems and IBM. We strolled by Sun's booth and saw this interesting demo:
On the left we've got a rack of Niagara 2 servers, on the right a rack of 4-year old Intel Xeon servers (16 CPUs total). Both systems are at idle and the difference in power consumption is tremendous: 180W for the Sun rack and nearly 1100W for the NetBurst Xeon rack.
Obviously the comparison would be far less skewed if we looked at Core 2 based products but the point is still valid: these old NetBurst based servers are power hogs and upgrading them would definitely help reduce datacenter power bills. Despite the Pentium 4's NetBurst architecture being our least favorite Intel creation, it still sold very well and these old Xeons continue to litter datacenters today.
Whether you replace them with Core 2 based Xeons or Niagara 2 based products, you'll still end up significantly reducing your power bill.
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ivorstukje - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - link
You can get nifty little wooden USB sticks from several places if you like wood with your IT. I have seen www.flashsticks.co.uk These would go well with one of these lap tops :)PlasmaBomb - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - link
You should give her a go on the NIAAmberClad - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - link
Could you ever actually see that replacing keyboard + mouse? I mean, the aiming part, which you still apparently have to do with the mouse, is the hard part, not the movement, which is what the NIA is being used for.I don't see how this could be used for aiming efficiently, due to its seemingly digital nature (mouse control is analog).
I also see any advantage being gained from the potentially increased response time being outweighed by the fact that you now have a disconnect between what you're using to aim (your hand) and what you're using to fire (your facial movements). What good is fast responses if the timing of the responses is off? If there was any advantage to this sort of a setup, the military would have been using it long ago.
Visual - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - link
certainly, it is not the ideal solution, having to make funny faces in order to interface with a computer - but it is just a starting step. i am glad asus is doing this - it will help popularize the idea itself, even if this particular implementation is rather basic.non-invasive approaches are getting better and better, but will never get as good as an implant. i personally believe we will eventually all have bci implants. i am sure brain-computer interfaces are the future, and will revolutionize our lives to an extent most of us can't even imagine yet.
there are so many possibilities in this technology that i can probably spend hours, if not days, talking about it... but i'll spare you the torture for now :p
AmberClad - Thursday, March 6, 2008 - link
A brain implant would be far more advanced than this little gadget, I agree. Personally, I'm very intrigued by the idea, but I think there are those out there who would be horrified by idea of cybernetics.ebuyings0005 - Friday, September 4, 2009 - link
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