"The CloneCloud service uses a smart phone's high-speed internet connection to communicate with a copy of itself (a clone) that lives on remote servers in the cloud. When the phone needs to perform any processor-intensive task, it can offload the work to the service after first calculating factors like amount of time and battery life required to move the data to the cloud. One of the major benefits of this technology is its ability to extend a phone's battery life since the phone no longer needs to use its CPU as much as before. It could also be used to scan the phone for security issues even if the phone was turned off. However, the main advantage of the CloneCloud system is that it could dramatically improve the phone's capabilities. For example, Chun created a test application which performed facial recognition on photos. On the mobile phone, it required 100 seconds to run, but once offloaded to another computer, the same task took just one second." - Alan Cheslow from Bookmarklet