It's no 26x optical zoom behemoth like its just-announced SP-590 UZ, but Olympus put yet another feather in its zoom cap with the Olympus Stylus-9000. The company announced the slim 10X -optical-zoom read more » DiscussBury
Antone Gonsalves reports on an announcement from Pioneer of new optical discs that can contain over 400 GB of data using 16 layers and can be read by Blu-Ray drives. read more » 1 CommentBury
Ed Oswald reports, "The Japanese electronics company says it has successfully developed a optical disc which includes 16 layers of data." read more » DiscussBury
"Researchers perform a proof-of-principle experiment showing that photonic jets have the potential to dramatically increase the storage density of optical media..." read more » DiscussBury
"Boffins at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are trialling advanced optical techniques aimed at reducing the price of quantum cryptography system..." read more » DiscussBury
"Call/Recall has announced it is developing a 1TB optical drive and disk, backwards compatible with Blu-ray, in partnership with with the Nichia Corporation of Japan..." read more » DiscussBury
One of the issues providers encounter when running fiber directly to homes (e.g. Verizon FiOS) is an extremely high install cost (around $900 per subscriber). Joel Hruska reports on a new Korean inve read more » DiscussBury
USB 3.0 is expected to be released as a final specification in 2008 and see product releases in 2010. It will include optical wiring in addition to the current copper wiring allowing it to up speeds read more » DiscussBury
