Software giant Microsoft has developed a tool that claims to read your mind. According to New Scientist magazine, the Vole has developed a way of analyzing data directly from your brain via EEGs. The difficulty with use of EEGs as a system of data collecting is that even when you blink, scratch yourself, or think of food etc, you disturb the brain signals. Microsoft hope that it can use the data to build improved interfaces which are more in harmony with what the user’s brain expects. Of course it might also represent that it discovers that its software is not accepted right to the back of someone’s brain stem.

We have been using dual layer DVD, now Hitachi has came up with quad layer (still in development) using Blu-Ray technology which will enable upto 100GB of data onto a single disc. What’s interesting to note that there will be no need to buy any new blu-ray drive and just a firmware upgrade would enable existing blu-ray drives to accept this quad layer disc. Company also said that they are working on eight layer variant of this technology which would double the capacity to 200GB. It’s good that these disc capacities are increasing and it will prove best for HD movie releases but for PC users thinking of making their own HD disc of home movies, I would say burning 100GB will be a boring task even with fastest hardware.

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Internet is outdated; this is what Larry Robert (pioneer of internet) has to say now. Reason behind it is that people are now using internet for huge downloads like streaming moving and making phone calls while internet technology is 40 year old and certainly not built for such uses.

So what I think that there are two kinds of people, one who are aware of this problem and finding a solution for it while some people are making websites even heavier with web 2.0 styled graphics, flashy sites and streaming media content. At this stage, internet needs some big overhaul or a total change.

iPhone remains in news as both hackers and Apple comes up with something new associated with it now and then. Few weeks back hackers were able to do the SIM unlock to make iPhone work on any network. Apple then released a firmware upgrade which made all hacked iPhones totally useless. Now hackers are finding a workaround to this in the form of rollback of firmware and they are successful to some extent. They successfully fixed a broken iPhone into usable state but it was still not working with any network. After some more tweaks, it may be possible to fully recover the phone to a normal state.

Compal introduced the much awaited Lid cooling technology for laptops. It’s a great step towards better laptop as today’s present method of using fan for cooling CPU is though effective but it also accumulates dust inside and also makes lots of noise. Dust is the major problem for all laptops around the world as total dust free environment is not possible and the fan inside the laptop sucks even more dust. Using fan also reduced battery backup. Lid cooling on the other hand is much better technology using heat pipe to transfer heat from CPU to the lid of the laptop. It’s like having a big heatsink. Using this technology for cooling will all manufacturers to make a completely sealed laptops which will not have any problem caused by dust and will have better battery backup.

Toshiba Corporation announced a prototype hard disk drive that uses Discrete Track Recording (DTR) technology to boost capacity to a record-breaking 120 gigabytes (GB) on a single 1.8 inch platter. This is the first drive in the world to use DTR technology, a breakthrough technology that boost the areal density of a perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) by a full 50 percent.

Toshiba’s latest 1.8-inch HDD in the market offers a single platter capacity of 80GB; application of DTR technology boosts platter capacity to 120GB, and takes the recording density to 516 megabits per square millimeter (333gigabits per square inch). A servo pattern for tracking control is also formed on the disk. Being small, these types of HDD will be good for use in notebook PCs, portable media players and digital movie cameras etc.