But in a world where the UN predicts that by 2010, one in five people will be over 60, and failing memory is likely to become an important challenge for society, more rigorous research into the link between music and memory is much needed, says the team.
Music phones are more likely to compete with cheaper, flash-memory based music players, he thinks.
He seldom appeared in public, and his music sounded like a subdued memory.
The donation of the UMG archive to the Library of Congress is a major gift to the nation that will help maintain the inter-generational connection that is essential to keeping alive, in our collective national memory, the music and sound recordings meaningful to past generations.
Favorite music or songs associated with important personal events can trigger memory of lyrics and the experience connected to the music.
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The factories that crank out the flash memory used in digital music players cost billions of dollars each.
In other words, consumers have to pay about seven times more to expand their music selection with flash-based memory technology.
We realised that if you had digital music, music that was digitised that is, then you could store it on flash memory or a hard drive and thus create a music player that could store many more songs that the Sony Walkmans or portable CD players that were the rage at the time.
Like its predecessors, the S10 uses flash internal memory chips to store the music it plays.
The HP DreamScreen comes with 2 gigabytes of built-in memory for storing photos, music and home movies directly on the device.
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As the largest maker of flash memory products, SanDisk stands to benefit greatly from the proliferation of smart phones, MP3 music players, tablet computers and other handheld devices that use such memory.
It has an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium 4 processor running at 1.7 gigahertz, an 80-gigabyte hard drive, which is enough to hold plenty of music and video, and 512 megabytes of memory.
RadioShack No-Contract Wireless smartphones are the only Muve Music phones that come bundled with an 8GB SanDisk memory card, allowing consumers to store up to 6, 000 songs, as well as pictures and videos, on their device.
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Curiously absent from the spec sheet are any mention of Bluetooth or memory card support, but with the music and imaging functions, we imagine that there's at least a microSD slot tucked away in there somewhere.
We've seen it before -- it's basically a car stereo faceplate that sports 1GB internal memory and connects with your PC to transfer music.
Likewise, the company's FlashTrax looks just like an audiocassette: Stick in a multimedia card or memory stick, and you can play digital music on a car stereo or boom box.
Brain regions involved in movement, attention, planning and memory consistently showed activation when participants listened to music -- these are structures that don't have to do with auditory processing itself.
Flash memory works best in small, low-memory gadgets such as phones, cameras and portable music players.
Each disk, called PocketZip, has 40 megabytes of memory that can hold up to 80 minutes of music.
The Lumia 800 contains an instant-share camera experience based on leading Carl Zeiss optics, HD video playback, 16GB of internal user memory and free SkyDrive storage for storing images and music.
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To the public, NAND-type flash memory is most familiar in the form of memory cards or sticks used in digital cameras or portable music players.
Its 1 megapixel camera is a bit slow, and the 50MB of memory constrains the phone from many video captures or Sprint music downloads over EV-DO.
Storing your favorite apps, books, movies, music, videos and more is virtually unlimited with the 4GB internal memory and the built-in MicroSD card reader that accepts up to 32GB memory cards.
Bill Shope, an analyst at JP Morgan, is betting the new MacBook will eschew a traditional spinning hard drive for the same sort of memory used in mobile phones and Apple's Nano music player.
My only memory of the day itself is of watching The Sound of Music while my mum was in the kitchen making jam.
We believe that Apple could charge a recurring fee for this service and will likely offer much more available memory than competitors since its users have much larger libraries of music, movies and photos.
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Its flash cards are ubiquitous in digital cameras and its memory chips are found in notebook and netbook computers, smartphones and digital music players.
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The Nokia Lumia 800 includes a camera with Carl Zeiss optics, high-definition video, 16GB of internal user memory and 25GB of free SkyDrive storage allowing users to store images and music.
SmartDisk's clever FlashPath devices that will let you use the memory cards in a 3.5-inch floppy drive, or, for music, an audio cassette player.
MP3 digital music players hadn't yet hit the market to any real extent, and removable flash memory cards were limited to use in digital cameras.
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