Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Alien technology #165167

Check this out, from IMDb.com:
"New Movie Media Devices Predicted - Presaging a day when hand-held media devices come preloaded with thousands of movies, videos and music tracks that can be individually unlocked by a code -- thereby eliminating the need for slow downloads -- scientists at IBM said on Friday that they had developed a new type of storage device capable of holding a hundred times more information than those in current use. Writing in the magazine Science, the scientists, who are based at the IBC research center in San Jose, CA, said that the device, smaller than those used in iPods, would be able to hold about 3,500 full-length films, and use so little power that it could run on a single battery charge for weeks at a time. "

11 comments:

Shuzo said...

ceah...i thought it was the tricoder they invented. i got my WD-40 and it's an alien tech i'm telling ya~!

THE BIG MOVIE FREAK said...

Use WD40 on your PC and watch it become smarter!

Anonymous said...

WD40 my ass!
then probably not so constipated!

THE BIG MOVIE FREAK said...

You're such a smooth operator, Anonymous.

Shuzo said...

well said BMF.
very smooth, anonymous. very smooooth...

Shuzo said...

like a baby's butt.

anyway, back to the main story. do we really need a small yet powerful device that can hold up to 3,500 movies? i mean...BMF, i'm sure you can name your top 1,000 movies of the century, right?...but 3,500?

hm...maybe BMF should start reviewing bollywood stuff. haha.

so, where's my friggin' tricorder?

nuff said...

jindavis said...

he man! who is "anonymous"?
I know u gays think it is me, but honestly, it is NOT me man! someone is tryin to frame me...

jindavis said...

anyway, if this device can hold 3.5k worth of movies, what does the current 160GB iPod able to hold?

Thus, wat so great about this dumbass, crap-shit alien tech?

Chao-Chee-Bat...man!

THE BIG MOVIE FREAK said...

160Gb divide by 3,500 movies... that means you're saying an iPod can hold that amount of movies for about 46Mb per movie? Sure that's enough mem for a decent resolution movie?

jindavis said...

there is something called YouTube (aka .flv) video format... very tiny file size...

THE BIG MOVIE FREAK said...

You're not called Tech Freak for nothing! :)

Anyway, the article also mentioned about incredible power savings.