March 27, 2006

Its my Birthday?

So yah... it was my birthday on the 18th. Had a good weekend, snowboarded, rock climbed and went out to dinner with my friends. Got some presents and had an all around good time. This weekend Daniel came up from Washington and I got to show him around Kelowna and Vernon. Again good times were had by all. :P

So in other news, there have been some really cool stuff I have been seeing lately in Tech news.

First off, we have all been hearing about HD DVD and Blue Ray DVD's that are coming out. These formats while larger than current DVD are not really enough for the new Movie standards coming out. Current DVDs can hold 8.5 GBs of info and the new formats range from 30-60 GBs. Wow COOL you say? Well about 2 years ago there was a story of a company that had created a Holographic disk, same physical size as a CD/DVD but could fit 1 TB of info on a single disk (thats 1000 GBs). I just came across a news article and apparently the same company is going to be releasing this media later this year in sizes ranging from 800- 1600 GBs per disk. Annnnddddd heres the down side, when released the drives will be in the range of $10,000 and the disks will be $100 per disk. So much for that.

This is one for Brian and his dad to talk over... if they haven't seen it already. Yet another company is working on a completely new type of prosthetics that sounds like a cross of a comic book and "Bender" from futurerama. Scientists have developed artificial, super-strength muscles which are powered by alcohol and hydrogen. This new type of muscle is approximately 100x as strong as normal muscle (but only about 1.5 - 2 times as strong as mine). :P To get the full story go here.

Ok so thats about it from me. Catch you later!

Posted by Korvon at March 27, 2006 08:42 PM
Comments

For those of you who dont know Futurerama and the Bender comment. Bender is a robot who runs of alcohol so he will die if he is sober. So if your body was mostly made of this stuff you would have to stop by the bar for a fill up.

Posted by: Korvon at March 27, 2006 10:24 PM

How did Daniel like the area? Where did you take him?

Posted by: Dave's mom at March 28, 2006 03:52 PM

Took him to "Scandia" which is an amusment place in Kelowna, Sushi, the theator to watch "V" is for Vendeta and were pretty much computer geeks the rest of the time.

Posted by: Korvon at March 28, 2006 04:06 PM

yeah, had seen the alcohol powered muscle... current versions are rather limited, but they believe they can dramatically improve it's speed and power.

it was even on Daily Planet

Posted by: Brian at March 30, 2006 12:07 AM

Happy Birthday Dave!!!

Snowboarding & rock climbing?! You had my dream birthday!

Posted by: Guinevere at March 30, 2006 06:15 PM

So....dinner with your friends. Wow that must have been cool.......wish the family could have been there.

Posted by: amy (the sister) at April 3, 2006 05:35 PM