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Sun, Mar 14, 2010

Weekly Tech Wrap-up

Weekly Tech Wrap-up

Another week in Tech has flown by, but what have we got to show for it?

Look Ma', I'm flying!

Well, have you ever wished you could fly? Not in a plane I mean, fly like Superman? Yeah, I have too. Well I’m afraid that’s impossible, but you can have the next best thing, the Martin jetpack. The jetpack in question is destined to be the first commercially available later this year, and at $86000 it’s not even as much as a fully specced Lambo. This personal flying marvel is powered by a 2L V4 two-stroke engine spinning two carbon-kevlar composite rotors, running on bog standard petrol with a flight time of 30mins. It’s technically not a ‘jetpack’ because there’s no actual jets, but if that doesn’t beat the pants off your mate’s crappy sports car, I don’t know what will.

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Thu, Dec 31, 2009

HD phone calls coming to the UK in 2010

The audio quality of mobile phone calls often leaves a lot to be desired. On GSM only, calls are a tinny low-bitrate affair and although 3G has gone some way to increasing the quality of calls, there’s certainly some room for improvement; maybe HD can help.

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Sun, Jul 19, 2009

Toshiba eats humble pie – releases BD player

blu_ray_logoToshiba, one of the main backers of HD-DVD has joined the Blu-Ray fold with the rumoured release of it’s first Blu-Ray player (and recorder for its home market). Having been thoroughly beaten in the format war (how much good that’s done the BDA is unknown at this point) Toshiba wisely cut it’s losses, pulled out of the HD-DVD format and 18 months later has gone one stage further and will actually be bringing Blu-Ray player to market. Ouch that smarts.

[Via Engadget & TechRadar (and machine translation)]

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