Pioneer Electronics has announced that they have developed something phenomenal. It’s the world’s first 16-layer optical disc which can store up to 400GB of data. That’s 25GB in each layer which is equivalent to a single layer Blu-Ray Disc (BD). It is still unclear but it seems that the new discs will be compatible with existing BD Players because of the same specification of the lens.
Pioneer will be demonstrating this piece of technology at International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage 2008 to be held in Hawaii from July 13.
Agreed you won’t look cool wearing this but the technology which drives the thing is definitely cool. NTT Docomo has prepared a technology which can help gadgets to accept commands with the user’s eyes. Prototype device showed a music player which skipped tracks when the eyeballs are moved quickly on the side or changes the volume with the rolling movement of the eyeballs. The magic is done with the help of the sensors which are embedded in the headphone and track the electrical current generated by the movement of the eyeballs.
Researchers are confident about the acceptability of this new tech and hope to integrate it with almost every gadget in the years to come.
nVidia had announced the Tegra processors for MIDs. And if you thought that they were boasting unnessarily then you may not believe that it can play Quake III at 35fps, HD Video playback, low consumption of power. See it to believe it.
nVidia today announced Tegra line of processors which will power mobile internet devices (MIDs) in the future. The so-called computer on a chip integrates an ARM CPU, a GeForce GPU and RAM making it an all-in-one solution for the manufacturers. Tegra will help devices which do a lot of internet surfing, gaming and videos. One of the highlights of Tegra is that they are 10 times more power efficient than its competitors and is expected to be launched by the end of this year. The PR states that it will be used with Windows Mobile giving a clear sign of Tegra powered phones by 2009.
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer showed a short preview of the upcoming Windows 7 at the D6 Conference. There’s not much to say about the OS right now other than its Multi-Touch support. Ballmer hinted the probable launch of Windows 7 in 2010.
Samsung has created another feat. They have developed a 2.5-inch SSD which can clock read/write speeds of 200MB/s and 160MB/s respectively. The SSD is developed on MLC technology supporting SATA II interface and just measures 9.5mm in thickness.
The development of SSD on MLC means same reliability as SLC SSD but at a cheaper cost of production. Mass production will start later this year.
Hybrid cars are not the only ones which will save our non-renewable resources. In fact, the mobile phones can do it too and that is why the researchers have developed a hydrogen fuel cell which can be used as another option of power for them.
The hydrogen filled cartridge developed by STMicroelectronics comes into action after the phone’s normal battery runs out of juice. In short, that is hybrid phones for you. And yes, don’t throw your phone right away; the expected launch is in early 2010.
Could you imagine a situation where your cellphone would never run out of battery? Even more, the cellphone would be charged by the heat generated by your body. German researchers have concluded that the difference between the body temperature and the normal temperature can help produce electricity. The concept which is based on Thermoelectric Generation can currently generate power of up to 200 millivolts but it needs to be increased to about 5 to 10 times to power a normal electric device.
Research is still on and smaller devices are already being powered by the human heat but one of the major task in their hands is power tomorrow’s cellphones, so that one doesn’t need to charge them every now and then. Another scientifically proven fact to support that being Hot is Good!
The recent GSMA held at Barcelona saw a new proprietary optical disc format developed by US based VMedia Research. Just like the UMD for PSP, this new 32mm optical disc would be for future mobile devices allowing them to play a full length movie without any loss of picture quality. The current generation of VMedia discs holds 1GB of content which is played on the VMedia optical drives fitted at the back of the phone.
Currently only India’s Spice will be selling VMedia compatible phones but the company is optimistic that more handset manufacturers will adopt to the new format when they see its true potential. Any takers?
