Overly Chatty Penguins

The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: GrayDuck on August 04, 2005, 05:52:53 PM

Title: Get Perpendicular
Post by: GrayDuck on August 04, 2005, 05:52:53 PM

My husband is working towards his Ph.D. in Physics and one of the things he's working with is how hard drive storage works, thin magnetic films, and nanotechnology stuff.  

Anyways, one of the things that he's testing / developing / researching (not sure exactly what the word is) is changing how bits are stored on a hard drive.  He's mentioned something about perpendicular media (or something) to me before, but one of the people from his lab found this link (http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html) from Hitachi.  It was just too funny to pass up.  Very cheesy cartoon, but you do learn stuff from it ;)

note: his group collaborates a lot with hitachi and other major companies - they aren't rivals or anything.

Title: Get Perpendicular
Post by: [JFF]Kirby on August 04, 2005, 06:10:30 PM

yeah i like the cartoon and so on... its old though... perhaps if he has the right connections he can supply the lm regs with 3890823902 tb hdds  ;)

Title: Get Perpendicular
Post by: Niteowl on August 05, 2005, 09:12:25 AM

Sounds like he's doing some super cool work there GD :)

PURE COOL FLASH ANIMATION!!
*dances*

Title: Get Perpendicular
Post by: Goldy on August 05, 2005, 07:18:17 PM

I can envision Hitachi's entire research team spending 6-8 months just to make that cartoon.