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This is an awesome idea, but I think it's kind of odd that people might buy a minion for their desktop.

It makes lots of sense though.]]>Apr 25th 2009 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 6:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/
Should Feyd be worried?]]>Apr 25th 2009 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/
It watched us the whole time...]]>Apr 25th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/

"Somniloquy external networking card let PCs "sleep talk" essential connectivity functions"]]>Apr 25th 2009 6:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/
"Somniloquy external networking card lets PCs "sleep talk" essential connectivity functions"

Nitpicking begets further nitpicking.]]>Apr 25th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/


"Somniloquy external networking card, lets PC's 'sleep talk' essential connectivity functions..."]]>Apr 25th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/
]]>Apr 25th 2009 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/I guess you did not, nor did mr miller.

]]>Apr 25th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/
But maybe you're right. Maybe it runs "a linux." And what not.]]>Apr 25th 2009 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Thanks for your input though.

]]>Apr 25th 2009 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/
Second, this is meant to do WAY more than just BT. It's intention is to keep ALL network activity going even if the computer's asleep. Doing it the way they've done it means that computers will consume less power, and don't always need to be up.

Read the damn article.]]>Apr 25th 2009 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Or perhaps I should say I'm surprised that the rest of the time people have more sense, since my judgement of people in general isn't that flattering.
But congrats to those that bought a bridge this week and kudos to those that financially helped out a nigerian widow.
Now go buy yourself this thing from those smart researchers in san diego and their kind and learned friends at microsoft. And as soon as they invent it, that device into which you can talk and people far away hear it, amazing stuff.]]>Apr 25th 2009 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/
When you put your computer into a low power (ACPI S1-S3 say) state, it will "off load" current tasks onto the USB device. Think things like HTTP downloads, BitTorrents, IM and TCP sessions. If there is activity on these tasks that the USB device can't handle on it's own it will wake up the master PC.

The routers you're talking about that have built in BitTorrent clients do not do this. You have to upload the .torrent file to your modem/router, it will download the torrent, then you download the content to your PC. You must see this is a LOT more involved than the previous scenario I just described. IE: Hit the sleep button, you're done.]]>Apr 25th 2009 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/
Knowing people, most wont bother using it.]]>Apr 25th 2009 6:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/I don't see the market for this device, unless they add system management functions to reboot a frozen machine remotely for example.]]>Apr 25th 2009 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/That is exactly what I am talking about. Good routers can run torrent clients and use attached USB drives or network attached storage. Many modern routers support this out-of-the-box, or you can install alternative firmware that allows you to do that.
One could use DD-WRT for example and install a torrent client:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Optware#Installing_torrent_client]]>Apr 25th 2009 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/
Microsoft does alot of work on Linux. They just prefer you use their products.]]>Apr 25th 2009 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 7:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/
I have a gadget that does that - it's called a netbook...]]>Apr 25th 2009 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/
This is intended to be a standard feature in future network adapter cards and chipsets.

Network activity can remain active while your PC goes to sleep. Most network activity is such a low intensity task, and is often a very time consuming task as well, such as maintaining large downloads. Network tasks that would take hours would no longer need the PC on throughout the whole task.

If its a free feature, why the hell not? To do that now, we need another low power device to maintain such activities, and a way of distributing the large download back to the PC, either through a network share or some other means. It just makes more sense to make that part of the high power device, so the task is completely seamless.]]>Apr 25th 2009 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/So it's a very low power mode, but the computer is still running and everything still downloads fine. I quite like the idea of this little device, and if it had an inbuilt battery and could keep feeding power to the RAM on the motherboard when it's in sleep if the power goes out, then I would definitely buy it. ]]>Apr 25th 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/
Man, I had to drive through the whole, crammed and jammed, city to the office, manually set things up and go back to my home office for final touches... Such a waste of time!]]>Apr 25th 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/Apr 25th 2009 5:31PM