Tag archive: material

The site Wikileaks has published some details of a proposed new copyright treaty between the US, EU, Japan, Australia and Canada, under which customs officials could legally check portable media players to see if they contained pirated material. Entitled the Proposed US-ACTA multi-lateral intellectual property trade agreement (2007), it’s not yet in force, but could bring longer sentences for those distributing pirated material, and… Read More

For well over a decade Neil Young has been threatening to release his massive archive of material from a career that dates back to the early 1960s. The veteran, whose resume includes years of solo work along with time in Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is finally willing to take the plunge and issue it, but it’s going to be coming on Blu-ray discs, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Young made the announcement… Read More

Dell customers who are afraid of bumping their laptop's hard drive too hard and damaging it might be interested to take note of the company's new shock-resistant hard drive. Announced today, Dell is selling these specialized drives for $129. The shock-resistant hard drive, Dell said, is available for the Latitude D610 notebook as well as the Precision M20 mobile workstation. It is 30GB and contains a special dampening material… Read More

“At the moment, the best that DLP can support is 720p, which means that 1080i and 1080p material has to be down-sampled. With the new chips, 1080p source material will be viewable at native resolution. Currently, High Definition material is broadcast in the US and Japan at either 720p or 1080i with 1080p material limited to professioanl production and archiving use. The move to 1080p for DLP, means that we can expect… Read More

“Sony claims this is the first time a contactless smart card has been made from plant-derived plastic instead of the typical oil-based plastics that do not decompose. However, the company added that it has not set a timeframe for actual use of the material for smart cards, since cost remains an issue. The smart cards are made from a material developed by Sony in cooperation with Mitsubishi Plastics Inc. The material is made… Read More

A Federal Trade Commission rule went into effect Wednesday requiring that unsolicited commercial e-mail that contains sexually oriented material include the words “SEXUALLY EXPLICIT” in the subject line. The rule also bars graphic images from appearing in the opening body of the message. Instead, the recipient must take some action in order to see the objectionable material, either by scrolling down in the e-mail or by clicking… Read More

Quote from the review: “The OmniVox is a simply constructed device, but with some clever use of a highly advanced 'smart material'. The implementation of this is the FeONIC technology that is highly touted on the packaging. This works by inducing a magnetic field, which is able to expand and contact the material very accurately – which in turn vibrates the surface material at a specified frequency from the reaction… Read More