a href="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20081204/tc_pcworld/nvidiareiteratesinterestinminilaptops"img vspace="16" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-4-08-nvidia_geforce_9m_9.jpg" //aA month ago to the day we were weeping our poor hearts out as we heard that VIA and NVIDIA had a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/via-and-nvidia-axe-netbook-platform-questions-abound/"canned/a whatever netbook plans the two had going on. Now, however, we're being given a glimpse of hope that all may not be lost... at least in relation to a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/NVIDIA/"NVIDIA/a. During a webcast from the Credit Suisse annual technology conference being held in Scottsdale, Arizona, NVIDIA's CFO confessed: "We're not saying we're not interested [in the netbook space]; it's a matter of how the market will evolve." In other words, it's taking a wait-and-see approach before plunging in headfirst. Honestly, we're not too shocked to hear that it may still one day invade the swath of 7- to 12-inch mini-laptops out there -- after all, it already branched out significantly with a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/02/nvidia-launches-tegra-hopes-to-change-the-smartphone-mid-game/"Tegra/a and a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/nvidia-announces-cost-energy-saving-tesla-personal-supercompute/"Tesla/a. C'mon NVIDIA, we've got legions of folks waiting to fire up emCrysis/em on their next Eee, and you could be the one to make it happen.pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"Gaming/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nvidia-still-interested-in-jazzing-up-the-netbook-space/"NVIDIA still interested in jazzing up the netbook space/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:57:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20081204/tc_pcworld/nvidiareiteratesinterestinminilaptopsRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nvidia-still-interested-in-jazzing-up-the-netbook-space/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1391094/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/nvidia-still-interested-in-jazzing-up-the-netbook-space/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TKZelYgkDyU1-40jI55gIuWc_ak/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TKZelYgkDyU1-40jI55gIuWc_ak/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=d8quqPsh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=d8quqPsh" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=g8QgCGXt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=g8QgCGXt" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/3nipro8Pr8c" height="1" width="1"/

pobject width="494" height="399"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/86RpIwNTGvIrel=0color1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcfhl=enfeature=player_embeddedfs=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/86RpIwNTGvIrel=0color1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcfhl=enfeature=player_embeddedfs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="494" height="399"/embed/objectIBM has just released a list of five innovations it thinks we'll see in the next five years, and they're ridiculous. It's the kind of crap we laugh at when we see a href="http://gizmodo.com/5101336/the-kitchen-of-tomorrow-in-1943"old Life magazine from the 40's predicting airship kitchens/a by the year 2000./p pHere's the list:/p p-Energy saving solar technology printed and stuck onto asphalt, paint and windowsbr / -A crystal ball to help you monitor healthbr / -We will talk to the Web, and the Web will talk backbr / -We will have our own digital shopping assistantsbr / -Forgetting will become a distant memory via smart appliances in every area of the home and office/p pSeriously, your big prediction for the next five years of technological innovation is italking internet/i? Are you fucking serious? Every single one of these predictions is laughable and idiotic. Seriously, a touchscreen in a dressing room to help you call someone to get you a different size is not an innovation, nor is it something that we will need to wait five years for. If that was a good idea, we'd have it now, but it's not, so we don't./p pYou would think that a company that exists in the tech sphere would have a clue about the types of short-term advances we can expect. Oh well, better go make some more unfunny ads to run incessantly during football games! [a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/presskit/26121.wss"IBM/a via A href="http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/when-innovation-dies-ibm.html"PSFK/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=d506e67ad3d2bd52b3bd13c169969033p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=d506e67ad3d2bd52b3bd13c169969033p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=d506e67ad3d2bd52b3bd13c169969033" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=T6t2Bv39"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=kJcCWxrE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=qcklu9pO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=qcklu9pO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=z4UgREva"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=z4UgREva" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/es-CsU6-cNo" height="1" width="1"/