IBM Develops Body Snatchers

While the idea that the human mind can leave its host body and possibly enter another body is still controversial, researchers at IBM are developing a computer system that can do just that.

The "SoulPad" is designed to capture all the processes that make up a user session on a PC so that it can be transported to another computer where the processes are resumed using the new computers hardware. The SoulPad comes with the Linux distro Knoppix as the host operating system. When connected to a new PC, Knoppix boots the PC and configures itself to the new hardware. It then mounts an encrypted filesystem with the users personal computing environment. VMware Workstation is used to launch the users operating system of choice, which could be any operating system supported by VMware.