LINKS
AND ARTICLES ON FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES AND GADGETS
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VisionStation 3-D
hemispherical display
The VisionStation® wraps the
individual user in 3-D graphics by integrating a massive 1.65 m
wide hemispherical display into a computer workstation. The company
also manufactures larger systems based on this imaging technology
culminating in the five-metre wide VisionDome5®.
http://www.elumens.com/products/visionstation.html
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Hello Holographic-memory discs Goodbye DVD's
A computer disc about the size of a DVD that can hold 60 times more
data is set to go on sale in 2006. The disc stores information through
the interference of light – a technique known as holographic
memory. The discs, developed by InPhase Technologies, based in Colorado,
US, hold 300 gigabytes of data and can be used to read and write
data 10 times faster than a normal DVD.Unlike other technologies,
that record one data bit at a time, holography allows a million
bits of data to be written and read in parallel with a single flash
of light,
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8370&feedId=online-news_rss20
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Break thru ! 3D Atomic Holographic Optical
Data Storage Nanotechnology
Colossal® brings you a non-contact rewritable
nanotechnology capable of 10 Terabyte's, 10,000 Gigabyte's on a
single CD. That's equivalent to 2325 single sided DVD's , 14285
standard CDR's and yes 6.9 million Floppy's.
http://www.colossalstorage.net
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0.85-Inch Hard Disk Drive
Toshiba® is the undisputed leader
in small form factor (HDD). 2GB*-4GB* 0.85-Inch. Toshiba plans to
increase to 10GB by using perpendicular recording. In fact the postage
stamp sized HDD was named the smallest Hard Disk Drive in the 2005
Guinness Book of Records. Toshiba's 0.85-inch HDD will bring storage
to a new generation of products including mobile phones, tiny MP3
players, digital camera, and camcorders.
http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx
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The World's Fastest Storage®
First and only solid state disk with 4Gb Fibre Channel
interfaces. 400,000 random I/Os per second.
Latency
Less than 14 microseconds. 3000 MB/s random sustained external throughput.
Automatically backs up data to disk at 190 MB/sec Redundant internal
batteries power the system for 25 minutes after power loss. Weight
(maximum) 80 lbs Capacity 32-128 GB
http://www.superssd.com/products_sub.htm
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Ramp generates power as cars pass
Dorset inventor
Peter Hughes' Electro-Kinetic Road Ramp generates around 10kW of
power each time a car drives over its metal plates. Depending on
the weight of the vehicle passing overhead, between five and 50kW
can be generated.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/4535408.stm
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World's fastest transistor 604 GHz
604 billion operations every second. Paving the way
for a new generation of super-charged electronic chips. This establishes
a new benchmark for transistor performance. bipolar junction transistor.
The current is controlled by the way it passes through three layers
- the base, emitter and collector layers.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7253&feedId=online-news_rss20
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Nanotech Gadgets
to Be Built by Algae?
The organisms create their shells by employing special
proteins and subcellular organs to first assemble silica nanoparticles,
which are composed of just a few hundred atoms. The proteins and
subcellular organs then orchestrate the assembly of those nanoparticles
into shells. Products may include flexible computer screens, cheap
and efficient solar cells, filtration devices, and drug delivery
vehicles that can target, for example, a single cancer cell.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0329_050329_nanodiatom.html
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Toshiba’s 60-Second Charge Battery
Charge to 80% of its capacity
in just 60 seconds. Top out to 100% in just a few minutes. After
1000 charge cycles, the lithium-ion cell loses only 1 percent of
its charging capacity.
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/toshibas-60second-charge-battery-037558.php
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Solar Tower of Power Finds Home
The 3,280-foot Solar Tower is one of the most ambitious alternative
energy projects on the planet. At its base is a solar collector
-- a 25,000-acre, transparent circular skirt. It can operate with
no wind, and 24 hours a day. Thanks to banks of solar cells, the
tower stores heat during the day, allowing it to produce electricity
continuously. It's estimated the Solar Tower will generate 200 megawatts,
enough electricity to power 200,000 homes, and will keep 830,000
tons of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere annually.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,66694-1.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1
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bio-robots that act on natures rules
Living heart cells, power microscopic robots. A "bio-bots"
looked like a minuscule pair of frog legs. "A microdevice had
two "legs" extending from the body at 45-degree angles;
each leg had a "foot" extending at a 45-degree angle.
It could eventually be possible to grow self-assembling machines
using the method. The news raises the question of to what degree
the robots can be said to be alive.
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/004203.php
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'Universal' hard drive system to ship this month
The cartridge slots into
an adaptor that hooks up to the host via a USB 2.0 port, from which
it draws its power. IO Data's version provides 20GB of unformatted
storage capacity, courtesy of a 1.8in hard drive. The 70.9g, 8 x
6.7cm cartridge is about the same size as a MiniDisc. The 120g adaptor
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/13/ivdr_iodata/
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General Micro Systems Announces Industry's Smallest
SBC
Occupying 30% less space
than a credit card, and consuming as little as 4W of power. a virtual
PC on a chip. a high-performance version (the P502) based on IBM's
800-MHz PowerPC 440GX. 256 kbytes of L2 cache, up to 256 Mbytes
of DDR SDRAM, 16 Mbytes of boot/user flash, and 32 kbytes of user
ID flash.
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php?story=20040309101919303
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