Infinity Announced First Movie Title On Hybrid Blu-ray/DVD For Japan

A Japanese entertainment software developer, Infinity has announced the first movie title on a hybrid Blu-ray/DVD disc in Japan. The movie title should be available in February 2009. The Hybrid Blu-ray/DVD disc is a combination of a traditional DVD with the new high-definition BLu-ray format. The new hybrid disc was developed two years ago by JVC, where the top of the disc has blue laser layer of 25GB, while the underneath have two more layers just like an ordinary DVD(8.5GB). The Blu-ray and DVD layers are separated by a semi-reflective film that reflects blue light while it allows the red light to pass through the DVD layer underneath.

Infinity also has noted that discs containing a couple of Blue-ray layers and a solitary DVD layer are also possible in the future. However, the first hybrid releases will be quite expensive. The hybrid HD discs that will be released in February includes a set of four hybrid discs (encoded in MPEG-4 AVC, Dolby Digital, 534 minutes in total) will cost around $406, while DVD version (7 DVD discs, 534 minutes, Dolby Digital) will retail for $266.

How To Easily Create GIF Animator

GiftedMotion is a small, free and easy to use GIF Animator that able to design a funny animation from a series of digital images. GiftedMotion is simple to use and straight forward, the user just need to load the pictures and adjust the frames as you like such as position, time to show and method to dispose previous frames.

The key features of GiftedMotion as below:

• Support Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
• Support English and German.
• Able to create animated GIFs from the following images types: PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF.
• Easy to adjust size of the resulting animation.
• Easy to adjust position of images within frames.
• Able to preview animation.
• Full control over all aspects of the animated GIF.
• Able to edit existing GIF animations.
• Best dithering results, if working with images of more than 256 colors.
• Free to use, no licensing costs, no installation required, just download giftedmotion-1.6.jar file and put on your desktop then start it. It requires Java to run.

The New ASUS USB-N11 Wireless N USB adapter

ASUS, the producer of top-notch wireless devices, has released the new ASUS USB-N11 wireless N USB adapter. ASUS USB-N11 built in with a WPS button for simplify the setup by allowing users to setup a protected networking environment with ease by push the WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) button on the adapter and the router. Additionally, the USB-N11 is fully 802.11 compliant which allow users to have easy interoperability with all draft-N devices and it also supports a whole range of different operating systems such as Windows OS(Windows 2000/XP/Vista 32/64bit versions) , Linux (source code provided for driver build) and Mac OS ( WiFi Utility - Mac 10.3/10.4/10.5 and drivers).

According to report, about over 70% of WI-FI adapters not supporting Linux or Mac operating systems, users often find it frustrating to setup wireless networks with hardware other than PCs.

With fully certified 802.11n wireless standard, the USB-N11 can provide data transfers of up to 5 time’s faster throughput (90Mbps) than 11g standards. This is ideal for wireless multimedia streaming, file sharing and online gaming.

SanDisk Introduces (Write-Once-Read Many) WORM SD cards

SanDisk, the world leader and innovator in flash memory products has introduced it latest product SanDisk SD WORM Cards. SanDisk SD WORM Card is a Write Once Read Many(WORM) digital memory card intended for professional uses such as court testimony, electronic voting, police investigations, Medical devices which retain individual patient treatment data, Cash registers which record transactions for tax collection purposes, Event recorders, such as security cameras and “black box” flight-data recorders and other application where data files must be protected from alteration or deletion.

The new SanDisk SD WORM Card is used the similar principle to DVD-R, where the information you write to the disc will stays and can’t be removed. The different is SanDisk SD WORM Card is able to retain data for up to 100 years. The Digital data written to SanDisk SD WORM card is effectively locked as soon as it is recorded and no has physical way to delete or alter the individual recorded files.

Digital data written to SanDisk SD WORM cards is effectively locked as soon as it is recorded; there is no physical way to alter or delete individual recorded files. To viewing the data is simple as the cards are readable in any standard SD slot or other SD-compatible device.

Analog recording media such as film and audio tape are rapidly becoming obsolete, driving demand for solution suitable for today’s digital devices. “SanDisk’s new SD WORM cards offer professionals a one-stop solution for capturing and archiving critical data, along with many other benefits of moving from analog to digital.” said by Christopher Moore, director of product marketing for OEM memory cards at SanDisk.

SanDisk SD WORM cards are available now worldwide in 128-megabyte2 capacity and are expected to be available in higher capacities later in the year. Pricing is available on request.

The world first underwater car

The concept car which can drive both on land and underwater was inspired by James Bond “The Spy Who Loved Me” has becomes the reality car in today’s world.

It has recently announced by a Swiss company “Rinspeed” named as “sQuba”. sQuba, at the touch of a button, can capable to diving to a depth of about 33 feet under the water.

sQuba is comprising of three motors, two to power a pair of screw drives for underwater movement and one to drive on the land.

It will be preview on March ’08 at Geneva Auto Show.