always very interesting to analyze when great minds leverage the capabilities of different devices for use them completely different from what originally had been awarded . In this regard Kinect gets all the applause, but not the only device that offers possibilities beyond its original purpose.

If you do not believe

see if the PlayStation 3. Different technology and computer specialists pooled their efforts to transform Sony console in a super computer . This is a project that has been developed over several years but only now is hundred percent functional .

id=”more-14484″> The super computer in question has been dubbed Condor and consists of 1,716 interconnected PS3 . This fantastic device has been developed by a group of scholars belonging to a computer lab with bases in Rome and New York, and be used by the U.S. Air Force and the squadron’s Air National Guard .

According to U.S. military authorities, Condor is one of the forty fastest computers in the world . Its main virtue is the digital image processing, which enables surveillance operations over long distances without losing quality in the display .

One of the most important questions that has had this super computer is the power consumption. As you can imagine, more than 17.00 PlayStation 3 in simultaneous operation is not saving much electricity . But its creators said that in situations of remote monitoring short and medium can turn some of the PS3 with no drop in performance .