On October 1st, 1982 the first ever commercially available compact disk player was released in Japan. The Sony CDP-101 was released for around 168,000 yen, or what would translate to over $1750 in ...

Wade Sun is an inventor who came up with the idea for the Compact Disk Eraser. It is a small device that has a tiny blade that gets rid of data stored on compact discs. This would not be very ...

Writer and T-bird user Cory Doctorow says: Don't forget to occasionally run File -> Compact Folders. I did so yesterday and reclaimed nearly 20GB of hard drive space!

CompactFlash cards have seemed downright bloated lately compared to some of the absolutely miniscule flash memory card formats coming out these days like mini SD and XD-Picture Card. Now there’s ...

*The US Library of Congress torture-tests a variety of compact disks. Some last splendidly, they're good for centuries, just like the industry used to claim when they said they would outlast vinyl ...

To achieve its compact form, the DS411slim ($320 as of 8/29/2011) simply uses bays designed for 2.5-inch drives (as opposed to 3.5-inch drives).

TDK's new EPCOS Compact S14 AdvanceD-MP series of metal-oxide disk varistors features a maximum surge current capability of 6 kA at 8/20 µs.