Intel’s giant board of Internet cubes

What you see here is a large board from Intel’s booth at CES. All those cubes are actually representative of news stories from across the Internet. The cubes could represent anything from news stories pulled from aggregators, Flickr photos, tweets, Facebook updates, or any mixture you can think of. Each time a cube it touched, a box pops up over the cube with a larger image and more details. Unfortunately, this doesn’t appear to be a product Intel plans on shipping any time soon. Instead, it is a tech demo to show off the power of the Core i7 processors. It was meant to show how fast and how powerful the processors really are. The screens can have multiple people up there touching many different cubes, without any real hint of a slow down, which is quite impressive. What is possibly even more impressive is the fact that each individual board was run by just one (higher-end) consumer-grade laptop.