Digital photography has come a long way in the last decade. There was a time when film photography was considered superior in resolution and depth, but this time has clearly passed. While having a few thousand dots per inch on an image is considered a quality print for most of us, what about 100,000 dots per inch? This is exactly what Singapore’s government-related Agency for Science, Technology and Research has managed to accomplish.

Using a new technology that makes use of nanostructures and nanodiscs to create color, they were able to create an image of 100,000 DPI at an impressively small size of just 50×50 micrometers, though the image above has obviously been enlarged so we can see it. This basically means the image was squeezed into something that’s roughly the size of one pixel on many tablet and laptop displays today. I won’t pretend to fully understand how the technology behind it works, though the team of researchers behind the tech say their inspiration was stained glass This is the very first 100,000DPI image and is nothing sort of amazing. Using nanostructures to create the color also means that these photo prints are less likely to fade. The team behind the new technology has already applied for a patent covering its use. The inventors of this nanotech method hope to find commercial uses for it in the near future.

For more information about the new technology, and the science behind it, check out the detailed write-up at Phys.org.

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Apparently, researchers in Singapore have come up with a solution wherein hard drives can effectively gain a six-fold increase in storage density. What this means it that you may soon have a 3TB drive on the same size platter as your existing 500GB. Better still, your 1TB could be replaced with a 6TB drive without having to get any bigger physically.

The way that existing hard drives work is that randomly distributed nanoscopic grains are spread out over the spinning magnetic platters. These get into disorganized clumps of ten, each of which form one bit of data. With the new idea, quarterbacked by Joel Yang from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore, larger grains in regular patterns are used instead. This is more organized, just like when you are “packing your clothes in your suitcae.”

Fine nano-scale structures are produced through an e-beam lithography process. Coupled with the addition of regular old sodium chloride, you can get nanostructures with a much higher resolution. The net result? More density and, thus, more capacity on the same size platter. We’re at early stages right now, but this could bode well for our increasingly beyond HD lifestyles.

Photo: Wired

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Sort of. It’s unlikely that we’re going to get Apple and Microsoft to co-operate on a joint project any time soon, but that’s not stopping a couple guys from Singapore from developing their own game that utilizes products from both companies.

Rockmoon of Singapore have come up with a 3D shooter where one player controls the ship via Kinect and the other player controls the Gatling gun with the iPhone. I suppose one player could theoretically do both, but the whole point is that two discerning parties can play cooperative together, right?

The graphics, by today’s standards, are pretty terrible and they look like a really old and crappy build of the Pod Racer section of Phantom Menace (plus Gatling guns), but the concept is pretty novel. You might even say it’s better than controlling a Roomba with your Wii Remote.

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The Apple MacBook Air is one good-looking notebook, but what if you want that same teardrop thin design in a smaller package? Apple doesn’t have a netbook for you just yet, but you could consider the newly revealed iiView A2. That’s two i’s, because having just one could draw some ire from Cupertino.

The iiView A2 hits up the higher end of the netbook scale, but no one will mistake it for a full laptop like the MacBook Air. It gets a 12.1-inch 1280xx800 resolution display, Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, Intel 945 chipset, and a 320GB hard drive.

With that 12.1-inch screen, the A2 is really only about an inch smaller than the MacBook Air, but this one comes with two USB ports. Take that, Apple! Rounding out the specs are a mini-HDMI port, 2-in-1 headphone/mic jack, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, 10/100 Ethernet, a six-cell battery… and Windows 7 RC1. The Vista Home Premium license is there too.

The Windows 7 will come pre-installed but the Vista license allows buyers to upgrade to a full build of Windows 7 when that is released in fall. And you can have all of this for the affordable price of $467. That is, if you are in Singapore. There’s no word on whether the iiView A2 will ever make it to our shores, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

Source: Crunchgear

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