Magnetic Field
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A half-century of hard drives
Reviews The hard disk drive, invented by IBM 50 years ago, underpins modern computing and will continue to do so for a while yet. But how did today's data storage technology evolve, and what does the future hold?
Researchers seek funds to study cell phone safety
News Scientists have long debated whether cell phones pose health risk and are now looking for money to fund research to help resolve issue.
Tags: Cellular phones, Children, public health, Wireless, radio frequency, researcher, health care, agency, radio, Cellular phones
Make sure your data stays your data
Techguide Scott Lowe warns against taking data-wiping methods for granted. Make sure your old hard drives and portable devices don't divulge all your secrets.
Researchers build 'flying' micro-robot
News The robot, which weighs about three-hundredths of an ounce, is manipulated by magnetic fields and has the potential for use in clean rooms or hazardous environments.
Tags: Hardware, Ontario, Micro-robot, magnetic field, Environment, laser, robot, researcher, University of Waterloo, camera
IBM microscope 100 million times stronger than MRI
News IBM Research has built a new nanoscale microscope capable of creating images with 100 million times finer resolution than existing MRI technology.
Tags: Hardware, Nanotechnology, IBM Corp., Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Microscope, hydrogen, magnetic field, tobacco, YouTube Inc., YouTube Video
A new spin on battery technology
News Researchers have discovered a new form of battery that can be charged by applying a very strong magnetic field.
Tags: Components, Battery, Electronics, Device, Semiconductor, Storage, magnetic field, Miami, theory, Tokyo
Freescale goes to market with magnetic memory
News MRAM chips promise to be faster than most other types of computer memory, but their high price could hold them back.
Laser innovation speeds up hard disks
News Researchers claim that lasers can be used to boost read/write speed of magnetic media by 100 times, with prototype due within decade.
Tags: Personal storage, Storage management
IBM, Stanford put new spin on chip research
News The tech company and the university announce a joint research effort into spintronics, a technology that one day may yield computers that start working as soon as the power comes on.
IBM makes molecular switch
News The company has made two separate nanotech breakthroughs that could lead to switches made up of single molecules, and storage on single atoms.
Tags: Nanotechnology
IBM, Infineon tout magnetic memory
News The companies say Magnetic Random Access Memory, a leading candidate to replace flash memory in cell phones, could be ready for commercial production by 2005.
Storing energy with flying metal objects
News A Calfornia company has created and is selling uninterruptible power supply (UPS) that stores energy kinetically, for data centers and large power consumers.
Tags: Green IT, Power supplies, surge suppression
Wireless power has techies beaming
News A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a device that uses magnetic fields to deliver power to gadgets remotely.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless
IBM changes directions in magnetic memory
News Big Blue teams up with TDK to develop a magnetic type of memory chip called STT-RAM; 65-nanometer prototype expected within four years.
Tags: Memory, Processors
Bending the laws of physics to increase storage capacity
Techguide Scott Lowe describes the latest technology that seeks to increase hard drive capacity and meet the challenge of flipped bits. Find out what HAMR is and how it seeks to change the storage game for tomorrow's hard drives.
Tags: Storage, Data backup, disaster recovery
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