Monthly Archive: June 2005

This looks like a cool idea; modifying an Xbox to store and play the contents of DVDs, without having to deal with media degradation to which DVDs are subject. Much the same as porting all your CD music to MP3 format and storing it on hard drives, MP3 players, and other media/devices.

Via Eric, here is a great appreciation of Jack Kilby, who invented the microchip in 1958 as a junior engineer at Texas Instruments. The world would not be recognizable without his “successful solution.”

A great man whose name is too little known. Look what he started…