Rather than design its own product, it would embed its streaming-video service into existing devices: TVs, DVD players, game consoles, laptops, even smartphones.

He USES a heavy, obsolete Dell laptop from which he has scoured any trace of hearts and solitaire, down to the level of the operating system.

Inexpensive video game peripherals with embedded accelerometers and PC devices ranging in size from laptops to hand-held phones are enabling new methods for application control.