The company says it takes into account more than a dozen factors in computing RealFeel, but doesn't say what they are nor how it is computed.
As big as constant computing is, the big guys can't do it all themselves.
He says few of his friends understand his day job in reconfigurable computing, and don't care to chat about it.
Cloud computing means a company's IT staff doesn't have to gain expertise in a new application.
In the hierarchy of computing hardware, artificial muscle doesn't really even register: it's usually a target for action, not the perpetrator.
ENGADGET: Turing machine built from artificial muscles may lead to smart prosthetics
The whole idea behind cloud computing is that you don't care where the data is going and where it's being processed.
"It's been a long time since we have had this rate of change -- it probably hasn't happened since the birth of personal computing 40 years ago, " he wrote.
Price information hasn't been released yet, but you can expect it won't be cheap--licenses for Palm Computing (nasdaq: PALM - news - people) operating systems are very expensive.
We've got no benchmarks to prove it, but anyone worried about sluggishness here in basic computing shouldn't be.
ENGADGET: Sony VAIO TT: unboxing, hands-on and impressions Hands-on
"Utility computing is one of those disruptive technologies that larger players won't be interested in until it gets big, " says Carr.
Corning's darn-near-impenetrable Gorilla glass certainly isn't new -- in fact, we spied it in a few of Motion Computing's tablets just a few months ago -- but it's still not commonplace on mainstream gizmos.
ENGADGET: Motorola Droid and Dell Adamo latest to get Gorilla glass
Having seized tablet-computing's crown, Steve Jobs, Apple's determined boss, isn't likely to give it up any time soon.
That's because the iPhone's severe design isn't about aesthetics: it's a solution to the very modern problem of how to combine computing, communications and mobility in a single device, says Mark Rolston, chief creative officer at Frog Design, which has worked on projects from Logitech devices to online services for Blockbuster (nyse: BBI - news - people ).
The yet-another-device philosophy doesn't carry, so to speak, and it's sure as hell not the future of mobile computing.
ENGADGET: Palm Foleo and Linux OS for summer is what Hawkins is announcing at D?
应用推荐