E3 Floods gamers with Info.

This years E3 like all the rest positively flooded gamers with info. Sony held the first press conference of the 4 day event revealing that the PS3 will be priced at $499USD for the 20GB package and $599USD for the 60GB package. They also revealed that the exact release date of ther PS3 is November 17. Until then it was only known that it would be released worldwide sometime in November. Along with this the new redesigned PS3 controller was shown. The main difference from the current PS2 controller is the lack on force feedback and the addition of motion sensing gyroscopes.

Next up was the Nintendo press Conference which showed of the much talked about about Nintendo Wii. Until now little has been seen of the Wii's games apart from short clips that showed barely anything.

The main points of Microsofts Press Conference were to tell people about Halo 3 and that GTA4 would be released simultaneously on the Xbox360 and the PS3.

Apart form the first party conferences there was a huge amount of anouncements by the third party developers such as a trio of Final Fantasy XIII games by square Enix and the news of a live Action movie based on Metal Gear Solid.

E3 certainlly big. Too big to write about everything here so to find out more go here.

12.8 Petabytes, You Say?

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday May 10, @12:11PM
from the will-it-happen dept.

MadUndergrad writes "Dr. Jonathan Spanier from Drexel University has come up with a novel way to greatly increase data storage density: water. Specifically, they propose using hydroxyl ions to stabilize minute ferroelectric wires. These wires could be many times smaller than what is possible today, enabling data densities in the neighborhood of 12-13 PB per cubic centimeter. While there are still many problems to be resolved before drives using these can be manufactured this technology does seem promising. For one thing, it would be non-volatile, but could apparently be made to act as RAM. The fact that this is coming out of a university gives me hope that this technology won't turn out to be just so much vapor."

Storage Capacity seems to be ever increasing. Before we even get to using TeraBytes this comes along. I wonder what impact this will have on the development of Holographic Memory? I mean there really isn't much point in developing a TeraByte storage system if you can get PetaBytes of the stuff. The development of this technology will have major side effects on Holographic memory technology.