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Toshiba breeding Large Humans (TM)

Toshiba breeding Large Humans (TM) 01/09/2004 09:56 PM

From richinternetapps:

Toshiba today announced at the Consumer Electronics Show the result of a successful project to breed huge humans. Industry insiders suspect that with Moore's Law starting to crumble, and physical limits on lithographic technology causing tremendous problems on the continued minituarisation of a range of devices, that the solution was to breed huge people, which in the words of a spokesman, "...obviously have huge hands...".

Results of this programme are demonstrated in the above photographs showing large humans (TM) to scale against a traditional 40GB SCSI drive. As can be seen from the above images, the technoloy has also been applied to children, in attempts to bring school bullying to a historic end. Rumours that Toshiba have in fact just announced a tiny hard drive are being dismissed as ludicrous.

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