Intel Developer Forum will give us a peek into the future

Charles Cooper over at Cnet has written an interesting column remarking on the development of mobile devices.  With the Intel Developer Forum this week in Shanghai, China, he gets some feedback from Kevin Kahn, the director of the Communications Technology Lab at Intel.

As Intel’s chipsets get smaller, and smaller, the race is on to create the ultimate mobile computing product, but meanwhile things screen size or button size still irk us (that right-hand shift key on Eee PC is still giving me trouble).  Charles Cooper throws in the question of what the hell happened to having mobile devices easily interact with each other- like, for instance, wirelessly connecting to a larger display when you need to. Mobile computing has so much possibility, but they haven’t had time to even begin to scratch the surface yet.

Intel’s Developer Forum will discuss and showcase a number of technologies they’re currently researching, including a multi-band, power-efficient, CMOS Transceiver. They’ll tackle topics ranging from Energy Efficiency to Biosensors to Gaming.

The Asus Eee is powered by the Intel Celeron-M ULV 353 (future models of the 900 will include Intel’s ‘Atom’ processor) and its ultra-low-voltage is just the ticket for such a compact machine.  Intel’s technology is just one of the building blocks, and from there Asustek has created a user-friendly computing experience that can easily go where you do.  The Eee PC is a strong example of how consumer needs and bleeding-edge technology are finally coming together, bit by bit- even if the Eee has yet to adopt things like a touchscreen or GPS, those sorts of features could easily appear on the horizon.