elonone-150x150 Elonex One T+ £99 PC, First ImpressionsYou may recall me mentioning the Elonex One PC back in February, a PC that would sell for the astonishingly low price of £99. Well, at that time no samples were available but I was intrigued enough to send off my £10 deposit, on the promise that it would be delivered in July. Needless to say it never arrived and not only did the delivery date slip, in the meantime Elonex produced an upgraded design, called One t+ (almost certainly a rebadged CNM ), which they offered to those who placed orders, at no extra cost. – the One T+ now costs £120 online. (The original One, with its quirky ‘upside down’ design always looked a bit suspect…) To cut a long story short, involving several unanswered emails and even more delayed delivery dates, mine has just been delivered. Read the rest of this entry »

sdworm-150x150 Century Old Idea for Memory CardsDon’t ask us how they know, but claims that its new 128Mb Write Once, Read Many times (WORM) SD card will store data for up to 100 years. If true and they’re on pretty safe ground from warranty claims — that’s a definite improvement on current . Data on rewritable and can start to deteriorate in as little as 5 years, though most manufacturers reckon they’re good for between 10 to 25 years.

Potential applications for the new WORM card includes storing evidential data used in police investigations, , company records and so on. WORM can also be used for archiving photographs and home , in fact anything that you would like still to be around in 100 years time, though the big question with all these things is, will there be anything that can read in just 10 years, let alone in 2108…




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