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Web 2.0 Summit: Intel Shows Off Secret Mobile Device

November 10, 2008

Source: Information Week

Intel president and CEO Paul Otellini appeared on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Thursday morning to present a vision of the future in which mobile devices have the power of today's desktop computers.

There was a prototype device, of course, powered by Intel chips. It was larger than an iPhone and smaller than an ultramobile PC. It was a template for tomorrow, powered by hidden PCs behind the couch on stage.

The Intel employee holding the device, identified only as Craig, proceeded to take the audience on a photo-driven business trip to China. Using these images, Craig showed how his prototype Intel device could perform real-time image-to-text optical character recognition and translation from Chinese to English, in order to allow a hypothetical traveler to read a Chinese menu in English. He also showed how it could translate English text to Chinese speech, to ask for a table for two.  Read More...