Most optical discs are a standard 12cm in diameter, are round, and besides some potential manufacturing incompatibilities with certain optical drives, are expected to load and be recognized in most ...

Slanted exterior edges on tiny magnetic disks could lead to a breakthrough in data processing. Materials researchers were able to create magnetic vortices with a diameter of only one third of a ...

Entertainment Media Expo Booth 302, — August 23, 2005 –Advanced Media, Inc., is pleased to announce brisk sales of its 8cm mini-DVD discs. The discs have been a strong addition to the popular RIDATA™ ...

This release is available in German. Tiny magnets organize themselves in vortices in the researchers' mini disks. The individual magnets can twist either in a clockwise or a counterclockwise direction ...

Apple iPod chief Tony Fadell has develop a collapsable hardware solution that would allow his company to reduce shipping and packaging costs by selling software on smaller discs which could then be ...

In today’s Tech Bytes, it’s the end of an era for Sony. The company has announced that it will cease production of blank Blu-ray discs after 18 years. Joining them on the chopping block are mini discs ...

The Mini-Disc never caught on in the U.S. But during the 1990s, the format did in its native Japan, where MD isn’t yet dead. Launching in 1991, MD was the coolest format. It was like a compact disc, ...

The filling and refilling of mini-disks affect the light signatures." The simulation models supermassive black holes in a binary pair, each surrounded by its own gas disks. A much larger gas disk ...