Intel Developer Forum in pictures
Published: 26 Aug 2005 17:35 BST
The Intel Developer Forum is the chip giant's chance to show off its latest ideas to its army of supporters, partners and independent designers. It's about more than just chip sets — wireless, virtual reality, fuel cells and new ideas in portable technology battle it out with dozens of new ideas for the attention and imagination of the people who make the industry work.
If you couldn't make it to San Francisco this week, then here are some of the things that made us sit up and take notice.
Toshiba's prototype fuel cell converts methanol directly to electricity, carbon dioxide and water and produces around thirteen watts for about ten hours
Toshiba's methanol fuel cell, due for production in 2007. Honest. The cell is the big block behind the laptop, the cartridges in the foreground contain enough juice to keep the computer going for around ten hours
One of two fuel cells on display, a prototype was shown working and powering a laptop - courtesy of a secret catalyser that runs at nearly 300 degrees centigrade. Production is due in a year's time, and the booth inhabitants were most upset when it was pointed out that, for fuel cells, production is always in a year's time
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