Laser-Hard Drives in the Making. Recent advancements might finally open the door to a new storage technology that will merge optical and magnetic technologies, leading to high capacity storage devices reaching speeds thousands of times that of existing storage technologies, while boasting improved reliability.
Laser hard drives promise 1Tbits/s data transfer . The Future of Things talks about the advances in the optical storage technology industry, the site claims we may see the first laser-hard drive hybrids within about five years. The first laser hard drives could reach speeds of 1Tbits/s while future femtosecond based laser drives may reach [...]
Japan Optic Fiber Internet @ DannyChoo.com The optic connection we got is a 100Mbps Hikari line from NTT which costs a measly 1,022 yen per month for the first year Business lines do exist but cost about 40,000 yen per month for a 1Gb optic connection. For that price they guarantee a constant 1GB up n down. Another nice thing [...]
DailyTech – Scientists Ready New Nanobots to Swim in Human Blood Stream . Enter the nanobots — scientists at Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory at Australia’s Monash University have developed tiny nanobot micromotors that are a mere quarter of a millimeter, powered by tiny piezoelectric motors, capable ofswimming in the human bloodstream. They are putting the finishing [...]
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I ran a 3DMark 2006 test today to compare Vista and W7 beta1 (both 64-bit):
Looks like you can link a progressbar of your application to its taskbar button now, looks cool!
I had been delaying this for a while and finally got around to it. I’ve had a watercooling setup for 1.5 years, but the past few months had been horrible with leaks in the CPU block and really bad performance. Also my PSU was being more noisy than I’d like. I was thinking of getting [...]
NEC develops Japanese-English interpretation software for cell phones › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion. The new software is specialized for compact cell phone CPUs and provides automatic interpretation from Japanese to English and English to Japanese. Demonstrations of the software have been embedded in NEC cell phones, which independently provide interpretation without the need [...]
Saturn’s Titan -A Giant Organics Factory. Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes. At an eye [...]
Legit Reviews – NVIDIA Ion Platform Benchmark Preview – NVIDIA Ion Reference Platform . At the Consumer Electronics Show last week, NVIDIA was showing off a new reference platformthat they were calling the world’s smallest fully capable visual computer. Features like DirectX 10 graphics, NVIDIA CUDA technology, and HD video are now possible in a 3″ [...]
DailyTech – New Research Brings Organic Solar Cells Closer to Light of Day . New U of T research looks to create organic solar cells by using special quantum effect Imagine having cheap, printable solar cells at your fingertips, woven into your clothing, streaming power into your mobile electronics. Organic electronics, a field which includes organic solar cells [...]
DailyTech – Researchers Discover Source of Moon’s Magnetism . Moon rock harvested by Apollo astronauts unveils secret of Moon’s magnetism One of the big questions that have stumped scientists since the early exploration of the moon is why lunar rocks are magnetic. Earth’s magnetic field is produced by its rotating, iron core; something that the [...]
DailyTech – Researchers Make Cloaking Breakthrough . The researchers say that the latest advance in cloaking technology comes thanks to the development of a new series of mathematical algorithms that are used to guide the design and fabrication of the required exotic composites needed for the cloaking process. These exotic composite materials are known as metamaterials.
