Photos: Technology Showcase at IDF

Summary: The Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Beijing includes a Technology Showcase highlighting some of the new ideas — some sensible, some striking, some plain strange — that will be emerging over the coming months and years.

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That's 'Ntertainment

Is this the future of the unwired home? This breadboard uses pre-standard 802.11n to relay high-definition digital entertainment to notebooks around the house, and includes voice over IP so you can make or take phone calls from the same devices. It's very unfinished, but the miniature fans mounted on the radio modules show that the latest version of Wi-Fi comes at some cost in power consumption.

Photo credit: Rupert Goodwins

 

 

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Topics: Hardware, Reviews

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