Apple has introduced iPod Photo, which displays photographs as well as playing music.

iPod Photo holds up to 25,000 digital photos, according to Apple, and shows them on a 220 x 176-pixel, 65,000-color display.

Users can also combine music and photos to create slideshows, which can be played back on the iPod. The device features a TV-out port for displaying slideshows on a television or using a video projector.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., (October 26, 2004)—Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) with NASA today confirmed that NASA's new Intel® Itanium® 2 processor-based Columbia supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world. Only days after NASA completed installation of Columbia—and using just 16 of Columbia's 20 installed systems—the new supercomputer achieved sustained performance of 42.7 trillion calculations per second (teraflops), eclipsing the performance of every supercomputer operating today.