Buffalo’s First External Blu-ray/HD DVD Drive March 27, 2008

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What’s going on this week? First we had Plextor unveiling its new internal Blu-ray/HD DVD drives for PCs and now Buffalo has launched its own external combo drive.

This Blu-ray & HD DVD Combo Drive is the company’s first external optical disk drive and it supports both read/write Blu-ray and read HD DVD formats. The drive offers single and double layer Blu-ray read/write speeds of up to 6x, HD DVD read speed of up to 3x and DVD read/write speeds of up to 16x.

I can’t help but think these drives would have been more useful to us all last year when the HD DVD format wasn’t so, um, dead.

Mobiles On Planes Get Green Light From Ofcom March 27, 2008

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Using mobile phones on planes could become a reality for many travellers following a decision by the telecoms regulator, Ofcom, to allow for mobile communications on UK registered aircraft.

The decision is great for travellers but flies in the face of current restrictions that seem to imply that using electronic devices on planes could interfere with the plane’s own electronics. Ofcom previously announced that it was planning to do this.

Modu Is The World’s Lightest Mobile Phone: Guinness Says So March 27, 2008

Meet modu, officially named the world’s lightest mobile phone by the keepers of all those sane and, not-so-sane, achievements, the Guinness Book Of Records.

According to the Book: “The lightest mobile phone is the modu, which weighs 40.1 g (1.41 oz). modu’s dimensions are 72.1mm (2.8in) x 37.6mm (1.4in) x 7.8mm (0.3in).”