The D-Wave One is built around the Rainier processor. It comes in a room-sized cabinet with a 100-square-foot footprint, which houses the extensive shielding required for quantum computing to work, as well as supercooling hardware.

D-Wave is no stranger to the technology industry.

It to produce software that can recognize automobiles within images. D-Wave's computers actually created algorithms that are being used on mobile phones for that purpose.

D-Wave One offers an application programming interface (API) that can be used to easily feed calculations to the beast .

Quantum computing isn't expected to reach the rest of us anytime soon, but if history is any guide there's little doubt the technology will be used more in the future.