Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

A mosaic of phtographs of the UMPC concept models demonstrated at Intel's IDF Spring 2006 in San Francisco.

1. UMPC at work, 2. UMPC at rest, 3. Concept UMPC, 4. Concept UMPC, 5. Concept UMPC, 6. The Real UMPC, 7. The Real UMPC

Summary: it's very, very shiny and I want one. But the second generation is really going to rock...

Slap-on arphids on everyone's badges, and over 300W of RFID scanners in an array over the entrance to the main conference hall in Moscone West.

What's more worrying is that the branding on the RFID scanners means that there's a business in tagging conference attendees.

Welcome to a whole new branch of the Surveillance Society.

San Francisco
March 2006