Tuesday, 10. January 2012
Topic: COMPUTER - on January 10, 2012 at 1:30:00 PM CET
Stephen Hawking's New PC
How did you come to be the guy who helps Stephen Hawking? Another engineer who was already working on this project transitioned it over to me back in 2001, and I've been running with it ever since. It's not my full-time job. I'm an application engineer supporting mobile and desktop chipsets.
What technology does Stephen use? The computer is made up of three parts: a Lenovo X220 tablet PC, a custom black box containing various peripherals and the hardware voice itself. The computer features an Intel Core i7 processor along with a forward-facing webcam, which Stephen uses to place phone calls using Skype.
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