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Wednesday August 10, 2005 12:47 pm
SoulPad from IBM Lets You Carry Your Computer’s “Soul”
You may soon be able bring your home or office system wherever you go, using almost any USB 2.0 device to carry your computer’s “soul.” SoulPad, which is being developed by IBM, stores three layers of software and information on the USB device – a base operating system, an encryption system, and a “virtual machine” which hold’s the user’s software and usage preferences. The entire process of booting any PC from your USB device should take less than 3 minutes. Once the PC is booted, the environment should look, feel, and act exactly like the system from which you took the information.
The creators of SoulPad have put together a short video demonstration of the system in action. While it does, in fact, show the SoulPad booting a PC, it will be interesting to see how the software holds up under the extreme variations of operating systems, user environments, and software packages that fall under the term “PC.”
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| New Scientist
Video Demonstration (14MB, WMV) | IBM Technologies
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