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Sanyo Invents 12X High-Speed Blu-ray Laser
Lucas123 writes "Today Sanyo said it has created a new blue laser diode with the ability to transfer data up to 12 times as fast as previous technologies. The laser, which emits a 450 milliwatt beam — about double that of previous Blu-ray Disc systems — can read and write data on discs with up to four data layers, affording Blu-ray players the ability to store 100GB on a disc, or 8 hours of high-definition video."
Kids with your fancy optical media and lasers and whatnot. I'll stick with my betamax thanks.
-=Bang Bang=-
A class 3b laser, I think (less than 500mW).
It's a big risk if if you're putting your head into the player and resting your eyeball directly over the laser diode. For people who do that, all we can hope for is more powerful lasers, or perhaps blu-ray players with sharks inside to which the laser is attached.
It can move a lot of data but is it shark-mountable?
Well I don't know, how old is she?
Ok, this is great, but how fast can you spin them before they explode?
Old enough to look good in a bikini.
Young enough to land-you in jail, you DOMAI! ;-)
The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to you.
fail! you are not many people.
How many people does it take to have many people? Is it more than a couple several or more than a few several?
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Ow! Economics and making sense on slashdot! Stop it!
/me takes an aspirin
What is dangerous is people measuring speed of lasers, particularly in mW!
But... but CDs are made out of a polycarbonate. The samt hing that Bullet-Proof Vests are made of! They're therefore unscratchable! (See, I remember the late 80's well)
Sapphire! We need to make CDs out of Aluminium Oxide. First we need to mass-produce the stuff in enough volume that the perceived volume goes down. And then use it on PDA, phone, ogg player screens while we're at it.
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