Digitizing The World » Misc http://www.pixmonix.com/blog The Pixmonix Blog. Converting and protecting memories Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:40:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 The Forever Disk, part 2 http://www.pixmonix.com/blog/the-forever-disk-part-2 http://www.pixmonix.com/blog/the-forever-disk-part-2#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:45:00 +0000 sbennett http://www.pixmonix.com/frb/blog/?p=17 Henry O’Connell of Millenniata contacted me shortly after I posted on the blog about the Forever Disk and we traded a couple of emails.
I’m glad to see that they claim that Alpha testing will begin in 2009 (according to their press release), though like all technology, I suspect it will be product later than the engineers and business people would like. With the push toward online backup and cloud-based computing and storage, I wonder what the lifetime of these technologies will be like – and how much in sales are needed to pay for the R&D. I suspect that this is not an easy business.
]]> http://www.pixmonix.com/blog/the-forever-disk-part-2/feed 0 The Forever Disk http://www.pixmonix.com/blog/the-forever-disk http://www.pixmonix.com/blog/the-forever-disk#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:59:00 +0000 sbennett http://www.pixmonix.com/frb/blog/?p=16 Interesting product possibilities from Millenniata (http://www.millenniata.com/). They claim to have an optical disk (a DVD) that will last 1000 years and is backwards compatible with existing DVD readers. You need a new drive to create the disks, but you can use your existing drives to read them.

So… what happens when I no longer have a DVD drive? I guarantee you that I won’t in 100 years – after the Singularity :-)

]]> http://www.pixmonix.com/blog/the-forever-disk/feed 2 Flying, slide shows and restoration http://www.pixmonix.com/blog/flying-slide-shows-and-restoration http://www.pixmonix.com/blog/flying-slide-shows-and-restoration#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:51:00 +0000 sbennett http://www.pixmonix.com/frb/blog/?p=15 It has been a while since I posted here. Summer has been busy with travel and family.

I had a very painful trip to the Midwest on United Airlines. I wish that it was possible for the airlines to simply go out of business and start again. I realize that this won’t happen, but it is really what is needed to fix things so that travel is sane again.

On the Pixmonix front, we added a couple of new services during the last month. Like photo scanning, we have been offering these services “informally” for years. We now offer DVD slide show creation services and photo restoration services.

On the page about our photo restoration service, you can see some wonderful images that we restored for a book project. It was a real privilege to be involved in this work. The gentleman involved had some wonderful stories to tell and some great photos to show us of Afghanistan in the late 40’s. Our customer provided text for the book. We helped on the project with scanning and photo restoration (some of it rather extensive), as well as book layout, proofing, and procurement. The final result is really wonderful. Thanks Charles!

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