Now that we have your attention… 
Todd Cochrane’s Jan 17th Geek News Central Podcast pointed me to Gizmondo which pointed me to Seagate’s application of perpendicular recording technology that yields 10x the recording capacity of those lazy horizontal bits.
Now, I was recently reading up on direct to edit systems used for recording DV to hard disk rather than tape (to shorten post-production times). As it turns out these systems are expensive as well as conveniently small.
Anyway, I followed these pointers to see what the future has in store for my future video and audio recording devices expecting the usual grey engineering specs… but instead found a very fun “explanation” of the underlying technology (thanks to a comment from ‘Rick’).
The point of this post is not to point you to the engineering, but to show you that even magnetic bits can have talent! Turn up your speakers to this little dance number from Hitachi and “Inspire the Next“!.
-pmh
