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The NME is reporting that Guy Garvey of Elbow is against the practice of downloading only certain songs off an album in iTunes instead of downloading the whole album. 

Accodring to Garvey, it’s not about the money;

“I’d rather people went ripped the whole thing for free than got the individual tracks for 79p each, you know what I mean, there’s no point in doing what we do (otherwise).”

Garvey feels that the practice is killing the idea of the album as an art form. That’s why he wants iTunes to let artists be able to lock their albums. Currently iTunes and other music download stores allow for certain tracks to be available only with purchase of the full album, but iTunes (or more specifically Apple) doesn’t allow for artists to allow only album sales.

The two comments to the article both agree with Garvey, and so do I. Downloading individual tracks is great for EPs where you just want the B-sides. But for full-length albums, if you like the artist enough, just buy the whole album, if only for the economies of scale aspect of it. Maybe bands could release just radio edits of singles, so that if fans want the original versions of the songs, then they have to buy the album.

Read [NME.com]

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1 terabyte optical disk - newest tendency of technolody

Mar 15, 2008 Nowadays Blu-Ray is not the best way to keep all the necessary data, because there appeared 1 terabyte optical disk.
Let’s find out if our society needs a disk which can contain much more information than you even have and need.

Generally, TeraDisk looks like a usual CD or DVD, but its features open something new and still unusual for us. There is a question: how have they done it? The answer is that a regular CD/DVD has 1 layer, but this novelty has up to 8. Thus, TeraDisk achieved this amazing result by using 200 layers and latest read/write laser technology. The process is not easy but the result, as you see, is great.

What was this TeraDisk created for? Usual PC users don’t need so much space for their data. But such huge companies like Sony and Microsoft might find it rather handy and useful.

Anyway, we should face another problem that appears if you buy such disk for yourself. Will it be recognized by a slow computer, for example? Will it be cheap enough?
If there already exists 1 terabyte optical disk, then why can’t be made exabyte hard drives? Usually, most hard drives on commercial computers are not more than 1 terabyte. If the creators think that our lifestyles are so energetic and sometimes so much space is not enough for a modern person, then it would be more reasonable to make larger hard drive, than a disk.

Unfortunately, such disk also has a disadvantage that all usual CDs have - one careless little scratch and it becomes useless. Then, it is hard to imagine how much time it will take to record this disk.

TeraDisk can be called ‘the disk of the future’, because it will be available in 2010. I think that at first, when it is accessible, a lot of people will buy it, but then they will try to understand if they really need it. This novelty will shock the society, but is it really worth it?

Posted Mar 15th 2008 11:55AM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Wearables

Considering that some digicams are emerging with built-in smile detection, we’d say whipping that grin of yours into shape might not be a half bad idea. Granted, Patakara’s latest certainly isn’t the first, but rather than just shaping your smile, this thing actually exercises the muscles around your mouth — presumably to help you cheese more intensely for even longer periods of time (you superstar, you). Heck, there’s even three models with different resistance levels for those totally committed. But let’s be honest, you won’t even give those fancy Body Trainer headphones a second glance — are you really going to dedicate time each day for this? You are? Well, then by all means, hand over your ¥5,250 ($52) and get to chompin’.

[Via popgadget]

The latest in the never ending supply of USB flash drives is the USBee, which makes not only perfect sense name wise, but also has a “bee like” yellow and black exterior. Along with the fancy name and coloring the USBee drive actually has some nice features that go along, first off the drive is made from silicon and aluminum and has a flexible design to prevent accidental damage.

In addition to a thoughtful and hopefully damage proof design the USBee also has a cooling system built into it’s stripes to keep it from overheating and a detachable cap that will snap on to the other end when the drive is in use.

The USBee drive is not yet in production, so of course we have no idea on just how much it would retail for or any available storage options. But in good news it did recently take first prize in an MS Industrial USB Competition held by a Seriban Design Community forum.

Via [Yanko Design]

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YO YO G-Spin

The mutant yo-yo combining yo-yo and spin top funcions. Radical metal rims and concave stainless steel ballbearings guarantee extreme spin times while the extended centre poles enable hybrid spin top tricks.All [YO]2 yo-yos are manufactured to the highest standards in materials and YO-technology. Each yo-yo comes with a free interactive learning CD-ROM with step by step instructions to the Art of yo-yo, performed by European champion Jan Schmutz. CD 2 contains additional advanced trick and (YO)2 scene clips by Jan and UFO. Colours may vary

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