The 2005 edition of the Guinness World Records Book will recognize Toshiba’s 0.85-inch HDD as the world’s smallest disk drive. The unit is the first hard disk drive to deliver multi-gigabyte data storage in a sub-one-inch form factor. The drive has a capacity of up to 4 gigabytes, and is intended for use in mobile [...]

Pilkington has developed a glass for windows that effectively cleans itself of organic dirt. Called Pilkington Activ, the glass is coated with a very thin layer of titanium dioxide. The UV rays in sunlight react with the titanium dioxide coating to produce a photocatalytic reaction. This reaction breaks down any organic compounds adhering to the [...]

BBN Technologies announced on June 3 that it has built the world’s first quantum cryptography network. The network is now operational in Cambridge MA, has 6 nodes and a number of optical switches and cryptographic key relays.
Called the DARPA Quantum Network, it generates photonic qubits for transmission through either fiber optic cable or [...]

Segway today announced a new model Human Transporter called the HTi170.
The price for this new model is $4,495. The HTi170 differs from the earlier i-series model mainly in color scheme (Midnight Blue). The base features stay the same: top speed of 12.5 mph, eight to 12 mile battery range and a total payload of 260 [...]

The PhotoVu PV1900 allows one to wirelessly transfer images for display in a wall-mounted LCD picture frame.

The display is 1280×960, 24bit color, and viewable from wide angles. Custom frames available. Priced at $1549.

Pretec announced their new range of high capacity Compact Flash cards. These new cards (marked as ‘80x’) will be available as 3 GB, 4 GB, 6 GB and 12 GB. The first three cards (3, 4 & 6 GB) are available in Japan as of today, the larger 12 GB card by the end of [...]

At Computex Taipei today Pretec demonstrated a new 2 GB card which conforms to the new MMC 4 standard and which Pretec are calling the ‘World’s Fastest Flash Memory Card’. Thanks to the fact that MMC 4 allows for transfer of 4-bits of data in parallel this new card has a quoted write speed of [...]