In conjunction with the iMSO app (available for download from the Apple App Store) and Apple's intuitive multitouch user interfaces, brilliant displays, and computation power, the iMSO-104 delivers the easiest, most intuitive scope solution on the market.

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Now a slew of new firms are racing to enlist thousands of individual PC owners to join their "grids, " aiming to rent out this parallel power to computation-hungry clients for a fee.

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No joke--computation is racing toward infinite power at zero cost.

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Even with the computation occurring at a data center, a Watson smartphone application would still consume too much power to be practical today.

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