Cell Phone Powered By ‘Supercomputer’ Demoed

January 31st, 2008 | Category: Gadget News

Accenture’s research labs in Nice, France, Tuesday showed off an application that enables a cell phone to act as a thin client to massive compute ability (well, a Windows XP laptop, anyway) essentially transforming it into a CELL PHONE SUPERCOMPUTER

. The picture shows part of the demo where the phone’s camera snaps a photo of a cheap print of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, and the system recognized the painting, and returned data about it from a database. I want one.

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