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 User Benefits : Unique triple interface solution FireWire 800, FireWire and USB 2.0 hard drive Sturdy aluminum alloy design Stackable desktop or rackmount configuration largest capacity available The LaCie Bigger Disk, with the largest hard drive capacity available, is a unique innovation that packs an amazing 1 terabyte of storage space in a manageable 5.25" form factor. With this unsurpassed storage capacity, the LaCie Bigger Disk allows users to store nearly two years of continuous music and up to one month of non-stop MPEG-2 video1. Truly plug and play, this device requires no driver or software installation for Windows XP...

Source: University Of Chicago Date: 2004-01-07 Scientists Find New Way To Store Hydrogen Fuel University of Chicago scientists have proposed a new method for storing hydrogen fuel in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The lack of practical storage methods has hindered the more widespread use of hydrogen fuels, which are both renewable and environmentally clean. The most popular storage methods-liquid hydrogen and compressed hydrogen-require that the fuel be kept at extremely low temperatures or high pressures. But the University of Chicago's Wendy Mao and David Mao have formed icy materials made of...

'It was just total panic' Woman seeks $10 million in storage facility ordeal 09/27/03 By GARY McELROY Staff Reporter A woman who survived being stuck in a storage unit for 63 days told jurors Friday of cold, hunger, thirst and despair as her civil suit continued in Mobile County Circuit Court. Wanda Hudson, 44, is suing Parkway Storage, located on Dauphin Island Parkway. She is asking $10 million, claiming negligence on the company's part. From Our Advertiser For a few minutes Friday, it looked as though attorney Mallory Mantiply's case against the company would self-destruct when Hudson, out of the...

Woman sues DIP storage facility over bizarre ordeal 09/26/03 By GARY McELROY Staff Reporter Wanda Hudson missed Thanksgiving and Christmas 2001 because she was locked in a Dauphin Island Parkway storage unit, Hudson's attorney said Thursday. In fact, Hudson was padlocked in the unit for 63 days, attorney Mallory Mantiply told a Mobile County Circuit Court civil jury. Hudson, 44, is a short, plump woman -- sporting fingernails several inches long that curl back into her palms -- but on Jan. 9, 2002, she weighed 85 pounds and was near death, a nurse told jurors. She is suing the company,...

<p>SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) - Judges on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by environmental groups claiming the bankrupt Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is unqualified to build a spent-fuel storage facility at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.</p> <p>Three administrative judges, who are part of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board of the Texas-based U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), concluded that the petitioners "failed to demonstrate there is any genuine and substantial dispute of fact or law."</p>

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.New air-drying technique could revolutionize storage for couples awaiting in vitro fertilization. (HealthDay is the new name for HealthScoutNews.) TUESDAY, July 1 (HealthDayNews) -- A method of preserving sperm through air drying could revolutionize sperm storage, letting men keep their sperm at home while they and their wives await in vitro fertilization (IVF). For the first time, studies on human embryos fertilized with air-dried sperm have shown this new technique doesn't impair the early stages of embryo cell division, according to Dr. Daniel Imoedemhe, a reproductive medicine and endocrinology consultant who works...

JAPANESE WIRE the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that a coalition of academics and electronics combine are designing an optical disk that will eventually be able to store 1.5TB (terabytes) of data. Although we're unlikely to see such devices until 2010, the consortium, which includes Matsushita, Ricoh, Pioneer, Mitsubishi, and three universities, is plunging $25 million into an R&D project which will start in Spring of 2003. Reports said that optical disk will use "3D" optical technology likely to use a technique which stores the data in multiple layers. It will also be backwards compatible with standard DVDs, the reports said,...

IBM laying storage-brick foundations By Stephen ShanklandStaff Writer, CNET News.comDecember 17, 2002, 4:00 AM PT SAN JOSE, Calif.--IBM researchers are working on a new storage system prototype that packs hard-drive modules into a dense, Rubik's Cube-like structure. The company's Collective Intelligent Bricks project builds variously sized three-dimensional stacks out of the eight-inch modules, each filled with 12 hard drives and six network connections to keep data coursing through the collection. IBM envisions a day when hundreds of these storage "bricks" are stacked together, eventually with computing bricks in the same assemblage. By the first quarter of 2003, IBM hopes to...

Hi all, I often go shooting, bringing the wife of course. My question: I keep my pistol loaded with 147 gr Federal Hydra-Shocks. At the range I will unload the magazines, reload with ball, practice, practice, practice. Then, reload the hydra-shocks, go home and clean. Last time, I was wondering, and fired a couple of the hydra-shocks, to make sure they work, they did. What is the shelf life of modern ammo? Or, is there a generally accepted rule? Thanks, ofv.

The storage capacity of computer hard drives could skyrocket if a prototype device for magnetic data storage developed by IBM can be commercialized.The new system, unveiled by Manfred Albrecht and colleagues at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, could offer 200 times the data storage capacity of current state-of-the-art systems, such as IBM's Microdrive. The Microdrive, announced in 2000, is a magnetic disk the size of a small coin. It can store a billion bytes of data - a gigabyte - on two square centimetres of surface. It can hold a up to 1,000 books 200...

<p>In June, 1956, IBM shipped the world's first commercial magnetic hard-disk drive. As big as a garden shed, the unit used 50 magnetic disks spinning at 1,200 revolutions per minute. Together, the disks could hold five megabytes of data. IBM rented out the contraption for tens of thousands of dollars per year.</p>

(Our pal, Camber, the old son-of-a-gun, found this one in his email box. It's been circulating on the net. Is it myth?) In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters carried iron cannons. Those cannon fired round iron balls. It was necessary to keep a good supply near the cannon. But how to keep them from rolling about the deck....?(snip) Click here to read complete article.

DVD-compatible optical disk hits 100 GbytesBy Mike Clendenin, EE TimesMay 24, 2002 (9:18 AM)URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20020524S0063TAIPEI, Taiwan — Forget about 100-gigabyte portable hard drives — too bulky. A physics professor at a leading Taiwanese university has led a group of researchers in developing a recordable optical disk capable of packing in 100 Gbytes of data and slipping into a pants pocket. That's about 30,000 of your favorite songs, or enough tunes to toe-tap to for a few months. The disk is compatible with today's CD and DVD technology, running off the same red laser pick-up heads used in a typical...

Nevada Governor Vetoes Yucca Mountain LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 8, 2002 (ENS) - Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn has vetoed the Bush administration's recommendation to build a permanent repository for radioactive wastes at Yucca Mountain. "Let me make one thing crystal clear - Yucca Mountain is not inevitable, and Yucca Mountain is no bargaining chip," Guinn said Monday morning in an address at the University of Nevada. "And, so long as I am governor, it will never become one." "Yucca Mountain is not safe, it is not suitable," Guinn continued, "and we will expose the Department of Energy's dirty little...