A DVD with 2000 movies……..Reality Bytes…..

May 30, 2009

The new generation DVD that can

hold all of your movies on just one

 disc

 

Time is not far away when we will have just one Disc in our hand and have 2000 movies in it……quiet intresting but its true…….

 

A DVD that can store up to 2,000 films could usher in an age of three-dimensional TV and ultra-high definition viewing, scientists say.

The ultra-DVD is the same size and thickness as a conventional disc, but uses nano-technology to store vast amounts of information.

Scientists believe it could be on sale in five years and say it will revolutionise the way we store films, music and data. 

Different dimensions: Scientists have created a DVD that has 2,000 times more storage capacity than the generation - but it could take up to 10 years before it goes on sale Different dimensions: Scientists are creating a DVD disc that can hold thousands of hours of film – but it could take up to 10 years before it goes on sale

One disc could back up the memory of a computer or record thousands of hours of film.

The breakthrough comes from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, where scientists created a prototype using ‘nano rods’ – tiny particles of gold too small to see – and polarised light, in which the light waves only flow in one direction.

Professor Min Gu, whose findings appear in the journal Nature, said: ‘We were able to show how nano-structured material can be incorporated on to a disc to increase data capacity without increasing the size of the disc.’

A DVD can hold up to 8.5 gigabytes of information, enough for a movie, several special features and an alternative soundtrack.

Blu-ray discs, which were designed to replace them, can store 50GB, enough for a film and extra features in high definition.

But ultra-DVDs will be able to store ten terabytes – or 10,000GB. 

A conventional DVD records music, pictures and computer files as digital code – a series of ones and zeroes.

The code is written as a series of pits under the clear surface of the disc and is read by a DVD player’s laser.

Revolutionary: In a few years all these movies could be stored on a single DVD - with room left overRevolutionary: In a few years all these movies could be stored on a single DVD – with room left over

Most DVDs have two layers of information – one on top of the other. The laser reads the first layer before adjusting its focus and reading the second.

The new disc stores information using two extra ‘dimensions’ – the colour of light and the direction, or polarisation, of light waves.

‘These extra dimensions are the key to creating ultra-high capacity discs,’ said Prof Gu.

To use colour, the researcher inserted rods of gold too small to see with the naked eye onto the surface of a disc. 

The rods were designed to react to particular wavelengths – or colours – of light. That allowed researchers to record information in a range of different colours on the same physical area of the disc.

They were also able to add extra information by using polarised light, which is made up of light waves that vibrate in just one direction. Light that has been polarised can be blocked using a special filter.

‘The polarisation can be rotated 360 degrees,’ said co- author Dr James Chon. 

‘So for example, we were able to record at zero degree polarisation. Then on top of that, we were able to record another layer of information at 90 degrees polarisation, without them interfering with each other.’

The researchers, who have agreed a deal with Samsung, admit recording on to ultra-DVDs is complicated and time consuming. 

The discs would allow vast amount of information to be stored on a cheap, disposable disc.

Currently, people have to use portable hard disc drives to store the equivalent amount of data.

Consumers would need to buy new DVD players to use the discs – although they should be able to read the older Blu-ray and DVDs, the researcher said.

The technology could help usher in an age of 3D TV or ultra-high definition.

 

So wait for it and be ready to enjoy it to the fullest….

 

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Wireless Electricity……Not a FICTION its the TRUTH……. :-)

May 29, 2009

The time when you have to plug in your devices into the power plug so that they can work is going to be over within next few years.

You will have a wireless access to the electricity any where and every where…..probably no problems in charging a Laptop when you are travelling in a train or no problems in charging a cell phone when u r at work……even though you might have an extra option installed in your gadgets that will decide when to recharge the devices.

Probably this would be the day in the history of mankind that will really bring up revolution and that will make this world so easy and fast and foremost, a completely wire free world.

Have you thought of reading books on wireless electricity? If you haven’t then start thinking because a research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has showcased a new technology, wireless electricity and its named WiTricity.

MIT team members

The MIT team was able to light a 60 Watts light-bulb from a power source seven feet away and most interestingly there was no physical connection between the source and the application.

The MIT team focused on one particular type; magnetically coupled resonators. The team explored a system of two electro-magnetic resonators coupled mostly through their magnetic fields; they were able to identify the strongly coupled regime in this system. The distance between them was several times larger than the size of the resonant objects. This way, efficient power transfer was enabled.

Two 20 inch coils were designed to resonate with one another, with one hooked up to the power supply and the other to a light bulb. As the magnetic fields interact weakly with most other materials, the power can go through walls and more importantly, doesn’t affect the human body.

Prof. John Joannopoulos says, “In the past, there was no great demand for such a system, so people did not have a strong motivation to look into it. Over the past several years, portable electronic devices, such as laptops, cell-phones, iPods, and even household robots have become widespread, all of which require batteries that need to be recharged often.”

Knowing about future, Martin Soljacic, the physics professor who led the team, comments, “Once, when my son was about three years old, we visited his grandparents’ house. They had a 20 year old phone and my son picked up the handset, asking, ‘Dad, why is this phone attached with a cord to the wall?’ That is the mindset of a child growing up in a wireless world. My best response was, ‘It is strange and awkward, isn’t it? Hopefully, we will be getting rid of some more wires, and also batteries, soon.”

The efficiency is still only around 40%. They are close to getting 100 Watts on the receiving end, which is enough to charge a laptop.

The Army Research Office (Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies), National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy has funded this work.

ANOTHER OLD THEORY LYING IN THE HISTORY SHEETS…….

The Hidden FACT…….

Wireless Electricity Of Nikola Tesla

……..If a single one-megaton nuclear warhead were exploded 300 miles over the center of the country, a high-voltage electromagnetic pulse would in theory disrupt communication and electrical systems all over the continental U.S. Gamma rays emitted by such an explosion would instantly strip away the electrons from air molecules in the upper atmosphere in roughly a circular, pancake-shaped zone. The free electrons would then accelerate radially with the earth’s magnetic field, separating from the heavier, positively charged ions and creating a downward directed high-voltage electromagnetic pulse. This in turn results in electrical surges in all exposed conductors on the ground.
……..When Nikola Tesla discovered alternating current (AC) electricity, he had great difficulty convincing men of his time to believe in it. Thomas Edison was in favor of direct current (DC) electricity and opposed AC electricity strenuously. Tesla eventually sold his rights to his alternating current patents to George Westinghouse for $1,000,000. After paying off his investors, Tesla spent his remaining funds on his other inventions and culminated his efforts in a major breakthrough in 1899 at Colorado Springs by transmitting 100 million volts of high-frequency electric power wirelessly over a distance of 26 miles at which he lit up a bank of 200 light bulbs and ran one electric motor! With this souped up version of his Tesla coil, Tesla claimed that only 5% of the transmitted energy was lost in the process. But broke of funds again, he looked for investors to back his project of broadcasting electric power in almost unlimited amounts to any point on the globe. The method he would use to produce this wireless power was to employ the earth’s own resonance with its specific vibrational frequency to conduct AC electricity via a large electric oscillator. When J.P. Morgan agreed to underwrite Tesla’s project, a strange structure was begun and almost completed near Wardenclyffe in Long Island, N.Y. Looking like a huge lattice-like, wooden oil derrick with a mushroom cap, it had a total height of 200 feet. Then suddenly, Morgan withdrew his support to the project in 1906, and eventually the structure was dynamited and brought down in 1917.
……..A Tesla coil is a special transformer that can take the 110 volt electricity from your house and convert it rapidly to a great deal of high-voltage, high-frequency, low-amperage power. The high-frequency output of even a small Tesla coil can light up fluorescent tubes held several feet away without any wire connections. Even a large number of spent or discarded fluorescent tubes (their burned out cathodes are irrelevant) will light up if hung near a long wire running from a Tesla coil while using less than 100 watts drawn by the coil itself when plugged into an electrical outlet! Since the Tesla coil steps up the voltage to such a high degree, the alternating oscillations achieve sufficient excitations within the tubes of gases to produce lighting at a minimal expense of original power! Fluorescent tubes can be held under high-tension wires to produce the same lighting up effect. Remember the farmer a few years ago who was caught with an adaptive transformer under a set of high tension lines that ran over his property? Through the air, he pulled down all the power he needed to run his farm without using any connecting apparatus to the lines overhead! Any electrical engineer with the proper materials can do the same thing.
……..Incandescent bulbs burn high resistance filaments that gobble up energy. Fluorescent tubes burn filaments (cathodes) to create an electrical flow that sets their internal phosphorus coatings aglow. Using a Tesla coil, high voltage AC can light up glass-enclosed vacuum bulbs coolly without any gases inside them at all! Any number of cold light bulbs can be lit using only one Tesla coil, and since there is nothing inside them to burn out, they can last indefinitely. It seems like a low cost form of street lighting, doesn’t it?
……..When Tesla was determining the resonant frequencies of the earth to potentially transmit unlimited electric power, he also recognized frequencies that acted as a damping field to nullify electric power. With the advent of the wireless and Tesla’s unique investigations into broadcasting electricity, a dozen or more inventors thereafter announced their own means for transmitting electrical energy without wires. One British inventor, H. Grindell-Matthews, actually demonstrated his “mystery ray” apparatus in 1924 to a Popular Science Monthly writer in London (See: Pop. Sci. Monthly, Aug. 1924, P. 33). When his beam was directed toward the magneto system of a gasoline engine, it stopped the system. Afterwards, it ignited gun powder, lit an electric lamp bulb from a distance and killed a mouse in seconds! Grindell-Matthews said the secret was involved with the “carrier beam” he used to conduct a high-voltage, low-frequency electrical current. During 1936, Guglielmo Marconi experimented with extremely low frequency (ELF) waves and displayed their exceptional ability to penetrate metallic shielding. These waves could affect electrical devices, overload circuits and cause machines like generators, electric motors and automobiles to stall. Diesel engines, which do not rely on electrical ignition, were not affected. Mysteriously, Marconi’s research on the subject was never found after the war.
 
Probably you will find this intresting and unbelievable……

Better to believe it ……yes its the truth YET to be REVEALED…

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