New York to use XBox

Authorities in New York decided to use XBox Live, an internet service designed to download music, video and play online games, to warn XBox users of any possible terrorist threats.

I think this is especially useful for college students and kids who just plays XBox and don't watch news or listen to the radio.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/state-local/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221900336&queryText=new%20york%20xbox

Millennium disc

One of the greatest drawbacks of optical media technology is the durability of stored data.
Some sources estimates that average lifespan of CD or DVD is less then 10 years.

A new invention is trying to tackle this issue offering optical disc which is said to last for 1 thousand years.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/07/17/millenniata.disc.archiving/

4TB drives

Increasing amount of data stored every day calls for high capacity storage devices.
Although flash-based solid state memory drives are getting more and more attention, good old HDD is still the best and cheapest way to store your data.

Especially with the new generations of hard drives which will store 3 and later on even 4 TB of data.
That's more than 500hrs of full-hd video!

WD 4TB drive (consist of 2x2TB drives)
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9134153/Western_Digital_releases_monster_4TB_hard_drive

In-car computing

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/09/ces.cars.computers/index.html

As computers get smaller and faster and algorithms and programming techniques more sophisticated, some things that seemed to be unbelievable are becoming a reality.

Just image a car that warns of a pedestrian you haven't seen or a even a car that drives itself! Sit back and relax, let the technology take the control.

The final frontier

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/21/space.camera.icarus.ireport/index.html

The most interesting thing in this article is how the spread of technology allowed ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Imagine just a couple of years ago, in precellphone and predigitalcamera times, how challenging would it be to launch a device almost to the space and retrieve a picture from it.

Nowadays, it's just a matter of determinantion and 148 bucks.