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.
A Community PC - that's the computer, not the large gentleman in black guarding it. The PC is designed for rural developing markets, to be a shared resource for hundreds. It can run for hours from a car battery - power supplies are notoriously unreliable - and has a front-panel button that restores the entire computer to a known good state, essential when you don't have an IT specialist for five hundred miles. I'd like one of those buttons, please
A selection of concept handtop PCs, which combine full PC functionality with a PDA-like form factor. Now you too can run XP in a box small enough to lose down the back of the sofa. Rejoice
A DVB-H adaptor for digital television on the move. UK company Crown Castle is one of the big names behind this new standard, which promises 16 channels delivered wirelessly to PDA or laptop
An experimental home diagnostic unit for Alzheimer's and other neurological conditions. It brings together a variety of tests that can monitor the progress of a patient with far more accuracy and currency than the normal system of visiting a clinic once every few months
Intel's digital heath division created this prototype portable doctor's assistant. The round knob in the top right hand corner is a wireless detachable Bluetooth stethoscope, while the three modules at the base customise the unit for different tasks
Wireless USB is still very, very wiry and not what you might call finished
Itanium continues to generate a buzz unmatched by any other part of IDF
