Happy 25th Birthday Compact Disc

August 18, 2007 · Filed Under Uncategorized · Comment 

Happy 25th Birthday Compact Disc

Exactly 25 years ago, the world witness a new storage format, it is the change from analog to digital format that spark a new revolution. Jointly develop by Sony and Philips, the compact disc is still one of the most popular storage format due to its relatively cheap price. Currently we’re into the 3rd generation, the HD-DVD by Toshiba and Blue-Ray by Sony.

Exactly 25 years ago the world’s first compact disc was produced at a Philips factory in Germany, sparking a global music revolution.

More than 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide since then and it remains the dominant format despite the growth in digital downloads.

The CD was jointly developed by Philips and Sony and the disc has also become a key storage method for computer users.

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Toshiba’s 360 Degree Panorama Bubble Helmet

October 17, 2006 · Filed Under Computer Gadgets & Hardware · 1 Comment 

Toshiba’s Strange Bubble Helmet

Ladies and gents, Toshiba’s Bubble Helmet that looks like a space helmet claims that it gives gamer a 360 degree panorama view. That’s weird because I didn’t know that our neck can be that flexible in term of viewing angle. Interesting halloween costume, goes well with a space suit. Can I breath inside the “shell”? I think it would work great together with Nintendo’s Wii Console system. Imagine fighting enemies in a 360 degree panorama view with a Wii remote controler. That would be fun. Maybe in the next few years when these technology mature.

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Toshiba and Fujitsu recall batteries

October 1, 2006 · Filed Under Sci and Tech · Comment 

Toshiba and Fujitsu recall batteries

I guess things are getting out of hand lately for Sony, with the much delay in PlayStation 3 and the competition between Blue-ray and HD-DVD war, not to mention the recall of batteries made by Sony. With their reputation going down the drain, Sony has a lot of image brushing up to do. This must have gone down in history as the biggest battery recall in history, to the extend that some airlines are banning the use of laptop while on board the plane. If only a laptop explode on board, would Sony be liable of the damange not to the laptop alone but to the plane and the safety of the passagers?

Toshiba is recalling 840,000 batteries across a wide swath of their laptop lines, in addition to the 340,000 they recalled a couple of weeks ago for an unrelated power-loss issue. Fujitsu is recalling Sony-made batteries from 19 of its laptop models, but no word on exact quantity of laptops.

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