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Intel Launches Site To Create First Crowdsourced PC

  • ClickZ, Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:45 AM
What would your ideal PC look like, and what would it do? Would it have endless memory, staggeringly high-definition resolution and lightning-fast Internet access, or come in bright pink and play Jonas Brothers records every time you get reboot? Well now you can tell Intel what you want, and maybe your wishes will come true.

Intel has teamed up with IT firm ASUS and ad network Federated Media Publishing to launch WePC.com, where the public can go and share their ideas for the perfect PC, and vote on others' ideas. Sometime next year, Intel will review the entries and develop the world's first crowdsourced PC-just in time for Christmas.

Sadly, Intel warns that the eventual product will, in fact, be tempered by reality. So you may still have to wait on that flying laptop that orders your lunch and predicts stock performance.

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