Holographic disk at the same speed of a Blu-ray

General Electric (GE) just burn a disc hologram at the same speed as a Blu-ray, between 4 Mb/s and 5 Mb/s. This is a step closer to commercialization of this technology remains still far from the general public. As highlighted GE on his blog, the democratization of holographic media depends on their capacity and speed of data processing.

We must still remember the price. For now, these solutions are for very large companies. They are very expensive and have speeds of about 20MB / s read. They are quickly overwhelmed by the hard drives and SSDs, which is why they are reserved for a niche market. The HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc) have so little conviction that InPhase, a pioneer of this technology  went bankrupt last year.

Patch 1.3 for The Witcher 2: Free DLC and new features

CD Projekt has released patch 1.3 for the excellent fantasy RPG The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. The update brings several improvements to the gameplay, introduces a new balance of the difficulty in the prologue, abilities, features new user interface, supports the view in 4:3, 5:4, and is accompanied by free DLC "A Sackful of Fluff."

"A Sackful of Fluff" is a new quest in Chapter 2 of the game. To start the quest, visit the eccentric Elthon, who Inhabits in solitary hut near the quarry outside Vergen. The quest will test Most rewarding to Those Who Demonstrate patience. Game now Supports 4:3, 5:4, and 16:10 aspect ratios.

LaCie Rugged Min

LaCie gave a little brother to his mobile hard "hardened" the Rugged. Welcome to the Rugged Mini, more compact (volume down 40%) but still strong. The Rugged Mini is always a cache HDD 2.5 "in its hull capacity between 500 GB and 1 TB always made of aluminum and rubber, it is supposed to withstand shocks, drops, rain and crushing (1 t pressure).

The interface is only USB 3.0, which is more than enough to drive a 2.5 ".

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Cooler Master Cosmos supertorre New Sneak Peaks II

Cooler Master has provided a first glimpse of his prototype supertorre Cosmos II "sneak peaks", which will be available in Spain in late October this year. As main features are compatibility with motherboards and-ATX size, XL-ATX, ATX and M-ATX, which added to its compatibility with 10 +1 PCI-E devices in one box makes it compatible with any hardware.

On its front panel are 2 USB 3.0 ports, 4 USB 2.0 (although the technical characteristics that have 2 put a typo, it is clear in the photographs has 4 USB 2.0), an e-SATA and two minijacks audio joined at the bottom of the icon COSMOS DNA in aluminum, which is also on top. The entire chassis exterior is made of aluminum painted black, and its interior is made of steel is also black.

Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet K1

The tablet has a Tegra-2 dual-core processor (ARM Cortex-A9) from Nvidia with a gigahertz and a DDR2 memory. It is available in different storage capacities: 16, 32 and 64 gigabytes. Wireless surfing works with wireless or UMTS. According to the device is particularly suited for entertainment. The Tablet provides full Flash support, rights management (DRM), a display of 1280x800 pixels and with a two integrated 0.5-watt speakers.

Intel publishes excellent results and think to 7 nm

Intel has released its financial results for the second quarter of this year and the figures are very encouraging. He announced a record turnover of $ 13.1 billion, an increase of 22% over last year and a profit of $ 3.2 billion, an increase of 10%. The founder also reported weaknesses and plans for the future.

If the sales increased by 2% this quarter, profits fell by 3%, which is relatively good sign as the second quarter is normally slower than the first. These figures are even more remarkable that a study by IDC shows that demand for PCs grew by only 2.6% compared to 2010. The decline in profits may also be partly explained by the fact that the founder has spent $ 2 billion to repurchase 93 million shares.

Sirus CM Storm 5.1, new headset now available

CM Storm presents new gaming headphones called Sirus 5.1, with eight speakers in four on each side and surround sound 5.1 surround. Storm The Sirus CM 5.1 provides 5.1 surround sound through its eight speakers in total, part incorporates a touch screen console that adjusts in real time the balance of each of the eight speaker channels.

In addition, the CM Storm Sirus have a unidirectional microphone with background noise suppression to improve communications in environments gamer that is essential to get along with co-battles. Includes a comfortable king-size pillows are placed around the ears to make them more comfortable during long gaming sessions.