Western Digital has “the hard drive industry’s highest demonstrated density to date using continuous media.” It has reached the 520 Gb/in² areal density, which to you and me means nothing, however in the terms of hard drives, it means they will be able to support hard drive capacities of up to 3 terabytes. Well that’s all good and dandy, however the only setback is that this technology isn’t going to be available to the consumer until 2010. Either way we’re still  bounding forward.

Read the Western Digital press release for more information.

Nokia has announced they are releasing the next phone in the n-series, the N810 Internet Tablet.

“The Nokia N810 packs the power of a traditional computer into a pocket-sized format. Its open standard technology accelerates the convergence of multiple functionalities and services into a single device”, said Ari Virtanen, Vice President, Convergence Products, Multimedia, Nokia. “Our new Nokia N810 offers users a true Web 2.0 experience in a compact, stylish, yet affordable package – it connects people to what matters to them.”

The phone comes with a linux based OS, has wifi, bluetooth, flash, “enhanced audio and video support”, and ajax support, which to most people means nothing, but it means you can run sites like facebook and myspace without too many hassles. So it will be good for everyone who is hooked into the “web 2.0″ world we are currently living in.

Images from nokia.com below, (click on each one for higher resolution images):

Read the press release for more information.

Another technology that I think has been left behind is the multi touch displays. For those of you who haven’t the faintest idea what that is, is a touch screen display, which allows you to act on it with more than one point. In other words, instead of just using a single point, like a mouse arrow, you can use more than one point, like two fingers, to manipulate and interact with the screen. The video below shows us a couple of the ways that we’d be able to interact with a computer, however do take note that this technology isn’t coming any time soon, but who knows. Last year I remember seeing Apple’s prototype, and hadn’t seen or heard any development further than that. I’ll be honest with you, I’ve never personally owned a tablet pc, but have always been curious as to how they dealt with fingerprints. My PDA  could be a nightmare at times, and I was terrified to use it had I just had a meal. And having worked in a restaurant where they had touch screen registers, I saw that they weren’t too bad, but then again, my hands were always clean. Please do enjoy the vid!

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I found this article through google before and was dying to get the video, (below). The state of wearable computers is actually getting far better than I had ever imagined, from the glove ipod remote, to the actual worn computer at the end of the video, it really does instil my faith in progression of technology to a practical state. Most people would think it’s ridiculous to have wearable computers. I for one, was one of these cynics, however I have seen the practicality for a wearable computer purely by this video alone. Most would say it would be pointless to have an ipod remote glove, after all, how hard is it to use an ipod? Well if it was all in your hand, it would be far safer to change tracks while driving than it would to find the ipod, hold it in your hand, and change the song, (in fact here it would most likely be illegal, as it could pass for a mobile phone and we aren’t allowed to touch a mobile phone while the car is in motion.)

The actual wearable computer, shows it’s practicality as the man explains how he had great difficulty typing, (yes this computer actually allows you to type), due to dyslexia, he would be very tense, and so he found that writing while walking didn’t allow him to become tense. Do watch the video, it is incredibly interesting.

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It appears as thought Adobe has been working on making online applications. They made an online version of Premiere, it was not available for end users, however it has been embedded into websites. You can use it for simple video editing on youtube and PhotoBucket. Now with it’s success it appears as though they’ve been working on an online version of photoshop. It hasn’t been released as yet, however they have released a sneak preview. Here’s a screenshot:

I also found a link to a podcast that shows it in action. They show the demo at about the 16.10 mark.

The online version has been called Adobe Photoshop Express. I’m not sure if it’s designed to be embedded for use inside other websites like Photobucket, and facebook, or whether Adobe will allow us to use it, as is. I personally can’t wait, and will let you know as soon as I find anything.

I personally am a very big fan of anything that allows you to go mobile. Portable applications are one big step towards it. The benefits are multiple, you can take your applications anywhere, it’s secure, your software is only ever running on your portable drive, you control it, you can take it anywhere, it’s incredibly easy to backup, it runs on almost any windows station in the world, (hardware and os version dependent), I could honestly go on and on. It’s also come in handy when working on someone’s computer and needed to have a piece of software they didn’t have. And the software available is growing every day.

I’m going to try and bring to you as much information as I can on the topic, as well as software updates.

I was first introduced to portable apps about six months ago, and as it stands, I honestly don’t know where I was without it. Now I can go anywhere and bring all my work with me. My own browser, email client, even anti-virus.

Oh and what’ the best thing about all this? It’s 100% free, (so far anyway). The only thing you need is a usb drive, or other portable media.

The majority of my stuff I’ve gotten from www.portableapps.com however there are many other sites out there. This site targets windows users, however there are sites for mac, and sites for linux, (Actually for linux you can download live CD’s and usb versions of the OS).

Below is the Ipod Touch Ad. Shows you the basics of it, looks quite good.

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A new Ipod Nano has been released, looks quite cool. I’ve got the ad below:

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Update:
Also found a site with some pics of the ipod in action, check it out!

Samsung and Giogio Armani have teamed up to put together a new phone.

As you can see they seem to have pulled if off quite well. I also found a video on youtube, check it out below. Read more

Now as everyone knows there is a war going on out there, not a war between nations, but a war between the formats. Today I take a look at what’s out there and what’s happening in the way of the next format for watching movies. Now everyone seems to hear about the issues that are happening at the moment stuck in the middle of this “war”. Playstation takes blu-ray however Paramount/Dreamworks is staying HD-DVD exclusive. What does this mean to me and you? That means if you got a PS3 so that instead of spending the money on a blu-ray player you spend a couple hundred more and get a gaming console too, it means that you can’t watch films such as Shrek and Transformers as they wont be released on blu-ray(yet anyway). (This in effect has rumoured that Michael Bay will refuse to make Transformers 2, read post here.) Read more