Tonium Pacemaker Portable DJ

Its finally here. After turntables, then laptops and finally it has come down to this. Folks at Tonium have catered to the problems of all the DJs who face problems carrying bulky instruments and song collection CDs.
Instead of simply listening to your music you can now completely interact with it, and the possibilities are only limited by your own imagination.
This PSP sized gadget, comes with 120GB of onboard storage space and offers the ability to mix between two distinct channels using an integral crossfader with a variety of effects such as pitch, bend, loop, split loop and EQ/Gain filters – in fact just about everything you’d expect from a DJ mixing desk.
The battery has enough juice to pump up the party for 5 hrs.
This is the most sought after device in the DJ community these days. Young enthusiasts are using this as an alternative to the legendary I-POD and improvising their skills on this as well.
The only issue with this is the price. it is priced at a high of $769 which is pretty hefty.
But im glad that things like these are coming out and a time will come where everybody will host his/her own party being their own DJs.

GE's 500GB Optical Disc

It's more massive than it actually looks. General Electric has come up with a monster 500GB capacity disc. This disc can hold 10 times the data of the current blue ray discs available in the market(100 times the size if the DVD's we use for backups) .
Technically, this is achieved using 3D optics, instead of the “2D” pit method of writing/reading data.
Since the size of the disc is the same as the optical discs we have these days, we can conclude that its not meant for the archive industries only. It is targeting the consumers as well who want to keep hi-def movies , pics and huge amount of digital data. No matter how big your hard drive is , it will only take a couple of these to take a backup.
It is also said that the format and the hardware is very similar to the current prevailing technologies. The only challenge lies in making a tangible hardware for this which i think will soon hit the market since half of the battle is already won.