News tagged with capacity


16 Gb SanDisk Netbook SDHC: More Storage for Your Netbook

16 Gb SanDisk Netbook SDHC: More Storage for Your Netbook

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

SanDisk today announced the SanDisk Netbook SDHC removable flash memory card, offering consumers an easy way to significantly increase their netbooks' storage capacity. Consumers simply insert the SanDisk ...


Intel Previews Xeon 'Nehalem-EX' Processor

Intel Previews Xeon 'Nehalem-EX' Processor

Electronics / Hardware

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Intel Corporation today previewed a new Intel Xeon processor codenamed "Nehalem-EX." The processor will be at the heart of the next generation of intelligent and expandable high-end Intel server platforms, ...


Lifestyle program for patients with COPD is health and cost effective

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with moderate COPD were randomized to receive "usual care" or to undergo an interdisciplinary, community-based program (INTERCOM) that offered an intensive lifestyle moderation phase of four months, during which ...


Better cardiorespiratory fitness related to lower risk of death, cardiovascular disease

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Persons with higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness have a lower risk of all-cause death and coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease compared to persons with lower levels of cardiorespiratory fitness, according ...


Large clinical trial finds pirfenidone may help lung function in IPF patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A large, well-controlled, multi-national clinical trial program has demonstrated the effectiveness and safety of what may become the first FDA-approved medicine for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF.


500 GB Micro-holographic discs

General Electric Develops a 500GB Optical Disc

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- G.E. has unveiled a 500 GB micro-holographic disc that is the same size as existing DVD's. The storage capacity is equivalent to 100 DVD's and is aimed at the archive industry but eventually ...


Gladstone scientists identify key factors in heart cell creation

Scientists identify key factors in heart cell creation

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease have identified for the first time key genetic factors that drive the process of generating new heart cells. The discovery, reported in the current ...


Kindle 2

Report: Amazon's $359 Kindle 2 costs $185 to make

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(AP) -- If you aren't sure whether Amazon.com Inc.'s latest Kindle electronic reading device is worth its $359 price tag, an analysis by research firm iSuppli may shed some light.


iPod Shuffle

iPod shuffle: Are these earbuds for you?

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Apple has a history of making things without features that many people consider essential.


Community provides essential support to military families

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The deployment of military personnel to active war zones, which involves issues of separation, time away from home, and eventual reunion, increases the vulnerability of their families, The heavy reliance on National Guard ...


Virus battery could power cars, electronic devices

Virus battery could power cars, electronic devices

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 4

For the first time, MIT researchers have shown they can genetically engineer viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a lithium-ion battery.


Exercise intensity and duration linked to improved outcomes for heart failure patients

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The level of exercise is linked with the reduction of hospitalization and death in patients with chronic heart failure, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study.


Police with higher multitasking abilities less likely to shoot unarmed persons

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

In the midst of life-threatening situations requiring split-second decisions, police officers with a higher ability to multitask are less likely to shoot unarmed persons when feeling threatened during video simulations, a ...


Regions of the brain can rewire themselves

Regions of the brain can rewire themselves

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen have succeeded in demonstrating for the first time that the activities of large parts of the brain can be altered ...


Dense Chip Schematic

250 DVDs on a quarter: New method of self-assembling nanoscale elements could transform data storage industry

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (35) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative and easily implemented technique in which nanoscale elements precisely assemble themselves over large surfaces could soon open doors to dramatic improvements in the data storage ...