snake oil

Over the past many decades other perspectives of computation have come into the spotlight. These include RISC, hardware encoders/decoders, or more interesting, quantum computing…<!—more–> The last of those has yet to amount to anything: quantum computers appear to me to be snake oil, and now there’s a new contender in the field of snake-oil computing. Zii (pronounced like the American pronunciation of the letter ‘z’), the “stem cell (spelled incorrectly on the website as one word) computing”. Zii is a Creative company, Creative being the sound processor company. Basically, if you’re at all interested take a look at the Zii website (www.zii.com) and watch their video. If you’re reading this, don’t get your hopes up: when a new ideology in computation comes a long it takes many years for developers to be able to build even the basic steps. But, maybe I’m wrong, we are talking about Creative here! Oh, wait, weren’t they the company with the whole “crystallizer” technology, that could supposedly able to make MP3’s sounds as good as the original CDs by recreating the data using a crystal. Considering this is nothing worth looking at, my only question is: "so is the Canadian/British division of the company ‘zed’?”