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OT: The F*cking Science Thread

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What It Is

Basically, Lix is a professional tool that enables you to sketch in the air without using paper.

Lix 3D pen is a dream coming true. With Lix 3D Pen you can create anything from small to big, from details to prototypes. It allows you to express your creativity on a whole new level. We are changing the world's view on 2D as we are now giving the possibility to make your creations in 3D in an never-been-so-easy way!

LIX 3d printing pen is the smallest pen that does not require paper.

LIX is the perfect tool for making writings, accessories, decoration pieces, art and crafts for kids, artistic jewelry, prototypes, and any different forms of drawings.

How It Works

LIX 3D printing pen has the similar function as 3D printers. It melts and cools coloured plastic, letting you create rigid and freestanding structures. Lix has a hot-end nozzle that is power supplied from USB 3.0 port. The plastic filament ABS/PLA is introduced in the upper extremity of Lix Pen. The filament goes through a patented mechanism while moving through the pen to finally reach the hot-end nozzle which melts and cools it down. An interesting fact about this light-weight, engineered pen is that these structures can be formed in any imaginable shape.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lix3d/lix-the-smallest-3d-printing-pen-in-the-world
 
Lol though thinking about how the average joe would use it. First off, the people on the commercial are artists, so I'm pretty sure most people would start off with a blob that almost looks like a dick.
Or boobs. Secondly, that's all I got.
 
http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/05/r-i-p-ipod-sony-unveils-cassette-tape-that-can-hold-64750000-songs/

For a time, the cassette tape absolutely dominated the sales market. In 1990 alone, a staggering 442 million tapes were sold. However, with the rise of the CD, the birth of the mp3, and the eventual resurrection of vinyl, sales dwindled, and by 2007 only a mere 274,000 individual cassettes were sold. Sure, cassette-centric labels like Kissability and Mirror Universe Tapes have offered the cassette a new and niche following, but it’s a clear sign of the times when the cassette’s accompanying Walkman is regarded like some alien artifact.

Now, though, Sony has brought the cassette back from the dead by unveiling a tape that can hold a whopping 148 gigabytes per square inch. If you can’t do the math, that’s 185 terabytes of total data. We’ll wait as you toss your iPod into the trash.

The tape, which was unveiled this weekend at the International Magnetics Conference in Dresden, holds approximately 74 times the amount of data of standard tapes. (For comparison, by 2010, most standard tapes could only store about 29.5 GB per square inch.)
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So, just how much data can a tape with 185 TB capacity actually hold? Here’s a few handy comparisons (via ExtremeTech):

– It’s three Blu-rays’ worth of data per square inch. Or, a total of 3,700 Blu-rays on a single tape. That’s a stack of boxes that would be nearly 15 feet high.

– A single tape holds five more TB than this hard drive storage array, which has to be custom-made and runs for $9,305.

– A total of 64,750,000 songs. If the average song is, say, three minutes, that’s enough music to last you 134,896 days.

– The entirety of the Library of Congress represents about 10 total TB. One tape can hold 18.5 versions of the Library of Congress.

The tape will be available for commercial sale, but no word yet on a release date. However, as Gizmodo points out, the super tape was originally developed for “long-term, industrial-sized data backup” and not necessarily for music, game, and video storage and playback.
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Yeah...it's not the amount of data held on a tape that I have a problem with, it's having to rewind or fast forward them.

Definitely neat though, will be huge for the entertainment industry.
 
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and yeah...I keep posting these as much to display just how rapidly technology is improving across multiple fields, as I do as a discussion piece.
 
MindzEye said:
and yeah...I keep posting these as much to display just how rapidly technology is improving across multiple fields, as I do as a discussion piece.
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I love these things. Please keep posting them. Some of this stuff is mind boggling.
 
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