gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » israel http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Holidays Until Septemberhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/24/holidays-until-september/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/24/holidays-until-september/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:22:41 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=15700 It is not often that I go on holidays. This can be mainly attributed to the fact that my work and spare time balance was leaning towards lots of work and not so much spare time. This is going to change and it is starting tomorrow with a seven day trip to Jerusalem. I just want to let everyone know that I prepared some articles in advance and will probably find the time to update the website with a few articles each day as the hotel where I’m staying is providing free broadband Internet to their guests. I’m taking my new Acer laptop with me and I’m thinking of updating Ghacks in the evenings after visiting the interesting sights of the city during the day.

I just want everyone to know that in advance so that no one thinks I’m dead or decided to stop updating the website. The other authors will continue with their usual schedule. If you have any tips or ideas for the trip let me know. I already got some great advice from Dotan for which I will be forever grateful.

I will go on at least two additional trips this year and plan to do about six in the coming years to find some time to relax and see the places that I always wanted to visit. I’m off now packing my suitcase and doing some final preparations for my departure tomorrow morning.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/24/holidays-until-september/feed/ 12 Israeli company to produce 1-5 TB discshttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/29/israeli-company-to-produce-1-5-tb-discs/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/29/israeli-company-to-produce-1-5-tb-discs/#comments Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:30:47 +0000 Tobey http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/29/israeli-company-to-produce-1-5-tb-discs/ The competition between Blue-Ray and HD-DVD seems to be ridiculous and pointless when you compare it with the plans of Mempile company. After achieving the maximum of 2 or 4 layers on present-day discs, they’re coming with a 200-layer medium called TeraDisc™. It’s those 200 virtual layers in a DVD-size medium (1,2 mm thick) that allow such a huge amount of data to be stored 3-dimensionally on a single disc. The medium contains light sensitive molecules (chromophores) capable of switching between two states thus saving digital data.

Although it might look like a universal solution to finding a better way to handle digital data, this technology is probably supposed to be only used for permanent archiving of data, not rewriting (I’ve never found a single mention of rewritable discs on Mempile’s homepage) which rather limits it’s practical use. Also, when storing such a vast amount of data on a single medium, you could soon regret it if the disc got scratched or damaged in some other way. However, it’s still a great deal to have a medium with 1 TB capacity, even if not rewritable. Besides, in the future, when the technology develops even more, the capacity of TeraDiscs should eventually reach up to 5 TB.

This invention appears to be a nice breakthrough in 3D data storage technology but I’m still convinced that it’s only a necessary part of transition which I’m waiting for. I mean who wants to use discs that get easily damaged when not handled properly…

In my opinion, datacubes are to replace discs as we know them in the near future for the purpose of storing digital data 3-dimensionally. Does it sound too much like sci-fi ? Just like internet at the beginning of 19th century ?

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