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5gb credit-card sized hard drive

posted by Duncan at 5:25 am on January 17th, 2003

Created by a company with the same name, StorCard can contain from 100MB to more than 5GB of data on a plastic card. At first glance, it looks like a credit card, and even has a magnetic strip like a credit card, for potential use in standard credit card readers.The hard disk data, however, is accessed on a tiny spinning disk inside the thin card.There’s more information on their website.

Andreas personal flying suit

posted by Duncan at 5:08 am on December 24th, 2002

Now, what’s this all about? Andreas is designing and building a turbine-powered personal flying suit. In principle this is going to be similar to the well-known ‘Bell Rocket Belt’, the difference is the power plant and controlling of the unit. While the ‘Rocket Belt’, originating form the late fifties / early sixties, used two monopropellant liquid fuelled rocket engines (peroxide motors), Andreas decided to go for a gas turbine, driving a huge fan to achieve a high mass flow of air.Read all about it here

Rio riot – digital audio player

posted by Duncan at 5:36 am on April 25th, 2002

The RioRiot was designed to meet the demanding needs of today’s music lover. With a 20 GB drive that stores over 400 complete albums of impressive, high-quality music, and the intuitive Rio LogiTrack interface, the RioRiot is the perfect player for your entire music collection. More here. This could be the one to purchase (until the next one comes out!!)


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