A German company has produced a series of disposable DVD movie discs that will delete themselves after 48 hours.
In fact you can get three versions of it: a 'one-time only' play disc, 8-hour and 48-hour versions. The discs, already being used in parts of France, Italy, Germany and Scandinavia are designed as a cheap way for non-traditional movie rental companies to rent movies to the public. These would include the likes of online movie rental companies that use the postal service or those that use movie kiosks. There’s another disposable DVD out there too called EZ-D.
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Sony wowed everyone at CES 2007 when it unwrapped some anorexic OLED TVs but it’s really pushing the boundaries on this one by showing off an OLED TV panel that’s just 0.3mm, or 0.01in, thick.
As you can see from the photo above, it’s pretty damn hard to see and makes the very sexy Sony Drive XEL-1 OLED TV, a 3mm thick TV that uses a 1.4mm thin panel, look positively obese.
This is a prototype right now, of course, but it’s seen as a future successor to the current XEL-1. Like the XEL-1, it’s just an little 11in TV but manages to offer the same resolution of 960x540 pixels.
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The private papers of science giant, Charles Darwin, have just been made available for free on the Internet for the first time.
There are over 20,000 items – all of his papers and manuscripts – now available as 90,000 viewable images from the Cambridge University Library. Up until now, only smarty pants scholars at Cambridge had access to the material.
The collection is ‘vast and varied’ according to the University and among the treasures is the first draft of his theory of evolution, notes from the voyage of the Beagle and Emma Darwin's recipe book. The Origin of Species, published in 1859, has been freaking out Creationists and other hard core religious groups ever since.
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Not everyone can afford a piece of kit by designer Danish audio/video (AV) house, Bang & Olufsen, but those that do get their hands on some are among some of the most vocal fans.
They will no doubt be delighted to learn then that a new survey of well-heeled consumers in the US has marked out B&O as the most prestigious AV brand on the block. It is also something of double header for B&O because it’s the first time that the same company has won the video and audio categories. I’m sure some audio and cinephiles will have something to say on that.
Chatting to 1,400 people with an average net worth of around £2 million and an annual salary of over £165,000, The Luxury Institute found that B&O offered the perfect combination of style and performance. Of course, there was no mention of price in this survey because none of that really matters to those that were surveyed.
Some of the respondents aid:
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The major UK online stores have sold out of Wii Fit, the new fitness bundle from Nintendo, a week before it’s actually due to arrive.
Considering that it’s not officially due to go sale until next Friday (April 25), that’s some achievement. Play.com ran out earlier this month.
We know that Wii Fit madness has already gripped Japan in recent months but it seems that UK consumers are also champing at the bit for the balance board/software combo. Here’s what the gang at videogaming247.com discovered:
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