Thanks youm0nt...Take a look at one of those credit cards in your wallet. That's the exact size and thickness of an upcoming, revolutionary removable storage device called StorCard. Created by a company with the same name, StorCard can contain from 100MB to more than 5GB of data on a plastic card. At first glance, it looks like a credit card, and even has a magnetic strip like a credit card, for potential use in standard credit card readers.
The hard disk data, however, is accessed on a tiny spinning disk inside the thin card. The card actually has moveable parts inside its thin shell," says Bill Heil, vice president of StorCard. A spinning wheel made of Mylar is engaged when the card is inserted into a StorReader, a USB-connected drive or PC Card that reads and writes to the StorCard. The reader is expected to retail for under $100 and the cards for under $15 each, Heil says.
The StorCard and StorReader are scheduled to become available in the second half of 2003. The company is talking with media producers, and a partnership announcement with a widely recognized producer of blank media is expected in the next month, Heil says.Amazingly, within the card is an on-board processor containing integrated software controls that can encrypt data securely in real time.
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The hard disk data, however, is accessed on a tiny spinning disk inside the thin card. The card actually has moveable parts inside its thin shell," says Bill Heil, vice president of StorCard. A spinning wheel made of Mylar is engaged when the card is inserted into a StorReader, a USB-connected drive or PC Card that reads and writes to the StorCard. The reader is expected to retail for under $100 and the cards for under $15 each, Heil says.
The StorCard and StorReader are scheduled to become available in the second half of 2003. The company is talking with media producers, and a partnership announcement with a widely recognized producer of blank media is expected in the next month, Heil says.Amazingly, within the card is an on-board processor containing integrated software controls that can encrypt data securely in real time.
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Chip ship
The report from In-Stat expects final shipments of Bluetooth chips to have surpassed 35 million in 2002.
By 2006 In-Stat expects more than 510 million Bluetooth chipsets to be shipped.
Much of this growth is due to the fact that the short-range radio system is becoming a standard addition to many mobile phones, laptops and other gadgets.
This year Bluetooth will start to make an appearance in expensive cars to enable people to make phone calls while on the move, a shift that In-Stat expects to significantly drive take-up of the technology.
Bluetooth, named after a 10th century Danish king, removes the need for wires to link up devices, instead the wireless system lets gadgets find each other automatically.
But In-Stat warned that work needed to be done to educate potential users about the benefits of Bluetooth. Too often, said the firm, vendors emphasise the technology rather than what it can do for people.
Without this work to educate consumers the take-up of the technology could stutter, warned the firm.
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