Toshiba and the consortium it leads have also developed a rewritable version for computers.
The company limped along in the early 1970s, pursuing things like rewritable microfilm with 3M.
Data was stored on rewritable magneto-optical disks 2.5in (64mm) in diameter housed for protection in a square plastic shell.
If our first look at Hitachi's GF-1050 DVD-RAM drive is any indication, rewritable DVD drives will be killer recording devices.
CNN: IDG.net - Recordable and rewritable CD drives: Permanent, portable storage
It was among the first general-purpose computers capable of storing programs in rewritable memory, which took the form of mercury delay lines.
While the case is quite large to fit all the computer and components inside, it does have a slot-loading rewritable BR drive, and 500gb of storage.
These include an order that prohibits him from allowing cell phones to be turned on in his house, and a ban on devices such as rewritable CDs and flash drives.
CNN: UK loses latest attempt to deport radical cleric Abu Qatada
The Vaio Digital Studio 547 computer includes a 500MHz Pentium III processor, 128 MB of RAM, a 8x DVD-ROM drive, a 4x Rewritable CD (CD-RW) drive, and a 20 GB hard drive.
CNN: Sony Digital Studio allows professional video editing on a PC
So, if you live in Europe, can afford the extra cost of the unit, and are in the mood for some rewritable Blu-ray, then this may be the media center PC for you.
The BDXL specification, which is targeted primarily at commercial segments such as broadcasting, medical and document imaging enterprises with significant archiving needs, will provide customers with write-once options on 100GB and 128GB capacity discs and rewritable capability on 100GB discs.
In his 50-year career, Ovshinsky received more than 400 patents in the U.S. and more than 800 foreign patents covering a range of technologies, including nickel-metal hydride batteries, rewritable CDs, DVD optical discs, flat-screen liquid crystal displays, hydrogen fuel cells, thin-film solar cells and others.
FORBES: Stanford Ovshinsky, Battery Genius Behind Smartphones And Hybrids, Dies At 89
Thinfilm has been working on low-cost sensor tags containing rewritable memory that can be placed on anything from a bunch of bananas to a bottle of perishable pills and that can collect a bevy of information, including the environmental conditions the fruit and drugs have passed through to how long it took them to get from the factory to a distribution outlet.
FORBES: Thinfilm Pairs Up With Packaging Giant Bemis To Create Labels That Know Things
应用推荐