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Toshiba&acutes 1.8" 250Gb SATA Hard Drive

Toshiba Launches 1.8 inch 250Gb SATA Hard Drive

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 26, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Toshiba has announced their new MKxx29GSG series 1.8-inch SATA Hard drives, including the 1.8-inch 250GB(MK2529GSG) hard drive, which is the first in the industry.





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New Speed Record for Magnetic Memories

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An experiment carried out at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) has realized spin torque switching of a nanomagnet as fast as the fundamental speed limit allows. Using this so-called ballistic ...


Ferromagnet/Semiconductor Structure

Discovery by UC Riverside physicists could enable development of faster computers

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 24, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (43) | comments 1

[B]Roland Kawakami's lab proposes a simple technique for controlling electron spin and current flow[/B] Physicists at UC Riverside have made an accidental discovery in the lab that has potential to change how ...


Spintronic -- the new electronic?

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

European researchers have developed novel concept devices using ferromagnetic semiconductors.


Quantum computing spins closer

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (35) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- The promise of quantum computing is that it will dramatically outshine traditional computers in tackling certain key problems: searching large databases, factoring large numbers, creating uncrackable codes ...


French physicists claim breakthrough in ultra-fast data access

Physics / General Physics

created May 31, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (32) | comments 16

French physicists said on Sunday they had used ultra-fast lasers that could accelerate storage and retrieval of data on hard discs by up to 100,000 times, pointing the way to a new generation of IT wizardry.


Gyrowheel to keep new bike riders upright

Gyrowheel to keep new bike riders upright (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new device called the Gyrowheel could soon revolutionize the way children learn to ride bicycles, and they will be able to learn on their own, without training wheels, and in as little as ...


No Wheel Stall in Diagnostic Drive

Spirit Mars Rover: No Wheel Stall in Diagnostic Drive

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Sol 2095 (Tuesday, Nov. 24), Spirit performed a set of diagnostic actions related to a stall of the right-rear wheel on the previous drive, three days earlier.


NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat Satellite

NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat Satellite

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer antenna. ...


Spintronic transistor is developed

Nanotechnology /

created Oct 23, 2005 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (24) | comments 0

Researcher Christian Schoenenberger and colleagues at the University of Basel, Switzerland, developed a carbon nanotube transistor, opening a promising avenue toward the introduction of spin-based devices into computer chips, ...


Manipulating Magnetism for Future Data-Storage Devices

Manipulating Magnetism for Future Data-Storage Devices

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 30, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (49) | comments 0

In an important step toward future data-storage technologies based on magnetism, a research group has determined how to control the magnetization of a “magnetic vortex,” a curling nanometer-sized magnetic ...



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