read-out

This year's Nobel Physics prize is awarded to the technology that is used to read data on hard disks. Thanks to this technology, it has been made possible to miniaturise hard disks so radically in recent years -- making possible the existence of iPod and many such devices which uses tiny hard...

The title says it. Another TechEBlog link from my side. The camera below, by Seitz, “shoots at 160 megapixels to create a native 6 x 17-cm image.” Plus, it boasts a shutter speed of 1/20,000th, 300MB/second read-out, and a ISO 500-10,000 range. The rest are Zippo, 360 degree, wrist-cams...