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Hitachi Goes Perpendicular

Posted by Zonk on from the get-perpendicular dept.

Nimrangul writes "Hitachi has recently announced perpendicular recording with their harddrives, allowing for 10 times the data storage on a disk, meaning 20 G microdrives are on their way as soon as 2007. Hitachi is so pleased with this technological development that it has broken into song." This is, without a doubt, the most surreal thing I've seen today. Flash Required.

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  1. For Your Referencing Pleasure by MrNonchalant · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the clueless among us, it looks like they're trying (and sorta failing) to emulate Schoolhouse Rock.

  2. School House Rock by SumDog · · Score: 5, Informative

    Before you skip over this as a dupe, you need to check out the flash animation.

    Damn this thing screams a nerd verion of school house rock!

  3. Re:If you can get high before you watch this by taviso · · Score: 5, Informative

    $ sudo emerge media-gfx/swftools
    # non gentoo users: http://www.quiss.org/swftools/
    $ wget http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/images/pr%2 0images/Get_Perpendicular.swf
    $ swfextract --mp3 Get_Perpendicular.swf
    $ xmms output.mp3

    --
    ex$$
  4. technical manga by RotJ · · Score: 4, Informative

    In Japan, a lot of product manuals, corporate PR documents, and government documents are published in manga form. Morita Akio, co-founder of Sony onced asked his young female skiing instructor if she had read his autobiography Made in Japan. She told him "no, but I would have read it if it was a manga." So he had an artist adapt his book into manga form, naturally.

    The informational manga genre was mostly spurred by the publication of A Manga Introduction to the Japanese Economy and A Manga History of Japan (Manga Nihon-no-Rekishi in the 1980s.