If the title “Organic Hard Disks” sounds unreal to you then you are wrong. As we know that Hard Disks are the storage device and it retains the data. Just imagine how does our brain work. The nature uses proteins to help our brains to retain memory. Based on this fact the researchers in Japan have been able to demonstrate the data recording on a glass slide using a fluorescent protein, light and chemicals. They succeeded in demonstrating the basic operations like recording, deleting and reading the data on the biological storage device. According to them this organic device spatiotemporally photoregulates the recording, erasing and reading of data on solid surface using protein. Though the research is in its preliminary stage but there is no doubt that very soon we will be having Organic storage devices with huge capacity. Many other researches are going on to build protein chip. Possibilities are limitless but it would be really interesting to see what comes first.

32 texture units, 640 stream processors, a 256 bit memory interface, 512 MB of memory running with operating frequency near to 1.8 GHz. Guess what is it I am talking about? Guys this is the configuration of AMD’s brand new ATI Radeon HD 4830 Graphics card. The product is a complete package to attract the gamers as it allows up to 4 cards per computer which highly enhances the gaming experiences. AMD is well known for it innovation and now the way its ATI CrossFireX and picture to picture technology used with this card has boosted the performance definitely keeps the AMD on the top of other brands. As far as the price is concerned, you will be amazed by knowing that you just have to spend $150 or less for this worth buying graphics card. It is quit affordable and economic in terms of both price and performance.

I give all the stars to ATI Radeon HD 4830 as it seems appealing to me, but time will better tell how gamers respond to the release. AMD has lots of expectations with it and so do gamers.

People who are curious about the technology might know about the Android. Android is a stack of software developed by the Google especially for Mobile devices. Android includes an OS which enables the application developers to work with the Java language. Though, only its Beta version has been released that can be downloaded here. But making its first grand and much anticipated presence in the market it is going to be released embedded into new G1 phones from T-Mobile’s later this month. The phone is believed to have features like iPhone. It is another touchscreen mobile phone with OS in it. However some reviewers have doubted on whether it can give competition to Apple’s iPhone. There is lot of buzz among the reviewers about the features that the G1 is going to offer. According to a review given by Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service, G1 is far behind the level of iPhone as far its hardware is concerned. Hardware design of G1 may not lure the buyers. But the Google’s Android might have some role in attracting the users. According to the reviewer the G1 phone has poor picture quality, inferior camera and awkward positioning of some keys. However the Keyboard of G1 is better. Android provides some really cool and new features to the users. Gmail and Google users would be benefitted due to extra support for these applications and services. But users with different choice like Yahoo mail may have to suffer a bit. You can read the full article called The G1 Is No IPhone, but Android Has Promise at the link given.

Though T-Mobile’s G1 may be compared to the iPhone and Nokia’s products but the current status of Android says it is still in developing phase as most of the Google products. So it would be interesting to see how they respond to the critics and the needs of users.

Release of Apple’s MacBook Pro laptop was welcomed by the critics and Apple seemed very enthusiastic about it until something really bad occurred. Apple publicized its new GeForce 8600 GT mobile graphics processor in strongly positive terms. This new model of processor is made by Nvidia based in Santa Clara, Calif. However, reviewers and the Apple Inc itself was shocked when users complained about the faulty Nvidia graphics processors. Initially it was hard to digest but now Apple has openly accepted that some models manufactured between May 2007 and September 2008, including the 15-inch, 17-inch may have faulty chips. According to the Apple, as posted in the website of MacBook Pro, Nvidia convinced Apple that Mac computers with the graphics processors were not affected by these faulty chips. But later investigations revealed that MacBook Pro Laptops with the GeForce processors were affected.

As a result, Apple is under the radar of its customers and has now agreed to extend the warranty of affected Systems. If the Nvidia graphics processor in your MacBook Pro has failed, or fails within two years of the original date of purchase, free of charge repair has been assured. If your MacBook Pro is out of warranty even then you will be serviced free of cost. Hence there is some relief for the customers. Moreover, for those customers who already paid for the repair service due to faulty chip, the money will be refunded. Now this is the good sense of accountability shown by the big firm like Apple Inc which will keep the faith of consumers intact. Nvidia is under critical attack by its shareholders for blotting out the problem. Though Nvidia may be responsible somewhere but its achievements in past may help it to hold the market. It is really tough time for both these giants.

Though the history of Touchscreen technology is quite old but it gained major attention when it was embedded with the mobile handsets. According to definition Touchscreen simply means onscreen input which can be via light pen or any other device. Touchscreen systems are based on the coordinate system on the screen. These days Touchscreen mobile phones many times called as Smartphone by some vendors are prevailing in the market. Smartphone has an Operating System installed that offers advanced functionality which are beyond a typical mobile phone. And the Touchscreen Smartphone is nothing less then a Touchscreen mini PC in your pocket. Isn’t it amazing? The first Smartphone was designed in 1992 by IBM which was named as Simon. But later many companies came with their Smartphones. RIM released its first Smartphone with wireless email feature. That was the first version of BlackBerry. That was only the beginning as it revolutionized this industry. Nokia too released its phone with such features but it named it as Imaging Phone. The most common operating systems used in these handsets are Symbian OS, RIM BlackBerry, Windows and now iPhone OS from Apple Inc is developing great craze in the market.

These days Apple’s iPhone is rocking in the market. But RIM’s Blackberry Storm is now trying to catch the attention of the market with its magnificent clickable interface which resembles to Apple’s iPhone. It is now believed that other companies also will implement these touch screen feature and hence the technology will drive mobile phone industry for coming many years. Apple iPhone’s feature of zooming into the images by back movement of the fingers and zooming out in opposite way is something people really got attracted to. Hence currently it is the first choice in the market. As always Apple seems to lead as far as the innovation in technology is concerned. Though both Nokia and Apple needs to be careful and must come out with something new and more lucrative because the BlackBerry Storm is going to be released at the end of 2008, and according to RIM it has a new touch screen feature in which the gentle click gives the feeling of a keyboard or a mouse and is totally different from those used by the formers. It also provides features such as slides, multi-touch taps and the ability to highlight, scroll and zoom. Mike Lazaridis, RIM’s president, is very confident about the success of their new product and very excited for its release in the market.

You can avail all these new and completely different user experience in Smartphone later this year with Verizon Wireless in US and Vodafone in Asia and Europe. Now whether it is really unique or similar to the other  Smartphones will be decided by the consumers after its release. But these innovative devices have definitely changed the way human interact today. They are having good hold over the market, and why not, they have made impossible happen.

Find some related Blogs

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. This technology has enabled to store the same data in different places i.e. in redundant manner on multiple hard disks and hence its name is RAID. With this technology data is placed on multiple disks so that the input/output operations can overlie in a balanced way. This has improved the performance as multiple disks increases the mean time between failures (MTBF). Moreover, storing the data redundantly also increases fault tolerance. A RAID appears as a single logical hard disk though multiple in numbers to the OS. This technology makes use of the disk striping technique. In this technique each drive’s storage space is partitioned into the chunks of memory ranging from 512 bytes to several MB and all the disk stripes are interleaved and addressed in order. The strip size depends on the type of OS i.e. multi-user or single–user OS. There are at least nine types of RAID plus a non-redundant array (RAID-0) each with its own functionality.