Tired of that lousy Quad-Core PC with 8GB of RAM? You are in luck my friend. SGI now has a personal option for those of you in need of a super computer. As their tag line says they are “making supercomputing personal”.
The Octane 3 is now available starting at the low low price of $7999 (USD). If that isn’t enough machine for you the Octane III can handle up to 80 CPU Cores–EIGHTY!–1TB of RAM! and enough room for ten 2.5″ SATA 2 hard drives.
In a demo by Craig Mundie–Microsoft’s top research and strategy officer showed how computers in the future will have multiple touch screens as well as voice and gesture controls.
“His demo included hologram-like videoconferencing, a virtual digital assistant, and multiple surface computers, along with voice-, touch- and gesture-recognition technology. The desk in the demo was a multitouch surface computer, and the office’s walls were also a display that could easily switch from being a virtual window or collection of digital photos to a corkboard of sticky notes or various workspaces. In one case, Mundie also used Project Natal-like depth cameras to put himself in the middle of an architectural demo, essentially putting himself inside a building that was not yet built.”
This has the potential to change everything. Productivity would sky rocket–as well as entertainment. Imagine when Google Real Estate comes out and you are able to do a virtual tour and walk through a house as if you were there.
The possibilities are endless when you think of what could be done with a workstation like this–especially if teamed up with The Emperor. For instance you could video conference with several people and all of you could be sitting in a virtual room where you could look around the room and see each other and see where the other was looking. With the Natal technology it could even sound like you were in the room with each other.
Unfortunately when if a computer comes out like this many people will probably have to choose between buying a house or buying this… We know what we would choose.
The Emperor Workstation is quite possibly the best $40,000 computer work station on the market. Complete with 3 LCD monitors, 5.1 surround audio, air filtration system, ambient lighting, reclining, 360 degree pivoting, pod tilting and more all controllable from a touchscreen panel on the left side of the chair.
The workstation comes with a computer under the seat or the place for a laptop dock behind the seat. The Emperor comes default with 3 – 19″ LCDs but when you are spending this amount of money it won’t be a problem to upgrade. For more info on these chairs that are available now check out the NovelQuest website.
Will the touch screen frenzy ever come to an end? I think not. Here is one more gadget that was perfectly fine being non touchscreen–but not as cool.
The NZXT Sentry 2 fan speed controller can control up to 5 fans in your computer. Slide this controller into one of your 5.25in optical bays and you can manually set the speed for each fan or set them up to independently kick on when temperatures reach certain levels.
Not much to say about this one. It can speak for itself. This is simply one of the most beautiful PC mods I have ever seen. Not sure of the specs but he is using some type of ATi/AMD build with a complete water cooling system.
The Emperor Workstation is quite possibly the best $40,000 computer work station on the market. Complete with 3 LCD monitors, 5.1 surround audio, air filtration system, ambient lighting, reclining, 360 degree pivoting, pod tilting and more all controllable from a touchscreen panel on the left side of the chair.
The workstation comes with a computer under the seat or the place for a laptop dock behind the seat. The Emperor comes default with 3 – 19″ LCDs but when you are spending this amount of money it won’t be a problem to upgrade. For more info on these chairs that are available now check out the 
