Posted on 2008 under Digital News, Storage, Miscellaneous |
22
Mar
The alphabet soup of different flash memory technologies is already a little bewildering, but it looks like the latest entrant could end up being the most promising of all, with single chip storage capacities of 1TB expected within ten years. Called array-based memory, the tech has been under development at a company called Nanochip, Inc. for nearly 12 years, and it looks like the first working samples will go out next year. Although those first prototypes will have storage roughly equivalent to NAND flash at tens of gigs per circuit, the plan is to rapidly scale up to 100s of gigs and finally to 1TB on a single chip. Because the chips can be manufactured using conventional fabs and aren’t subject to the same manufacturing constraints as traditional flash, they may also end up being far cheaper per gigabyte. The company Read more… »
Sony’s latest additions to its E series range of MP3 players come with interchangeable jackets, and have a USB plug for direct connection to your computer. The player itself comes in black or white, and there are twenty different designs of the outer “Style-Up” panels available. In 1GB, 2GB and 4GB versions, the NW-E023F, -025F and -026F play ATRAC, MP3, WMA and AAC and have a 3-line LCD display and FM radio function. Measuring 3.2 x 0.9 x 0.6 inches, they’re out in March in Japan for between $100 and $150. Style-Up jackets will be around $12 each.
Posted on 2008 under Storage |
2
Jan
Lenovo long ago revealed its Olympic-themed laptops, but it looks like the company isn’t done with the technology tie-ins just yet, as it’s now trotted out a similarly-branded USB flash drive to go along with the laptops (or your own). As you can see, the thumb drive should at least match the laptop quite nicely, but there unfortunately doesn’t seem to be any word as to what capacities will be available, or any other details for that matter. We’re pretty sure you can expect them to roll out sometime before the Olympics get underway this summer, however, with ‘em likely to demand a bit of a premium over other, non-Olympic drives.
Posted on 2007 under Concept, Storage, Design, Miscellaneous |
27
Dec
Panasonic has announced their development of the world’s thinnest internal Blu-ray drive. At just 9.5 mm tall, it’s thin enough for laptops but still packs a performance punch. We’re talking 2X recording for both BD-R and BD-RE (rewritable) discs, along with BD-R DL support (but we’re guessing that the dual layer writing is just 1X…have fun burning those 50GB discs). The drive also supports DVDs with 8x burning on all types of discs. It’s priceless for now with Panasonic only shipping units to manufacturers at the moment, but we’ll get more details soon when it’s on display at CES.
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