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Toshiba Demonstrates Future Technologies for Portables

Newspaper current event by VnutZ on 05 February 2008, tagged as technology, computer, and gizmo

Toshiba's methanol fuel cell has been in development for more than five years. However, at this year's CES, Toshiba demonstrated an Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) powered by a direct methanol fuel cell laden with enough horsepower to run Windows Vista. The device seems to work by docking with the fuel cell for a power recharge to save on size and weight. A fuel cell would allow users to literally "run forever" so long as they continued to change the reactant.

Another Toshiba demonstration integrated a Cell processor from Sony into their upcoming G45 laptop. Sony's Cell has already proven itself capable of extraordinary computing capability in HPC and grid applications. Toshiba puts a four core version of the Cell alongside an Intel Core 2 Duo to offload graphics intensive tasks such as upscaling video to HD or performing real time video interpretation of commands through a webcam. It is not clear whether the modified Q45 will become part of the product line.

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