The 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show

The 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show featured more than 3,200 exhibitors touting the latest technological creations. Of those technological creations, the three that I found most interesting were LaserDisc's, Ultrabook's, and MiniDisc's. LaserDiscs are a video format formed in the 1970s, by Philips.  The surface of the disc contains one long spiral track of data. Along the track, there are flat reflective areas and non-reflective areas. A reflective area represents a binary 1, while a non-reflective area represents a binary 0. The drive shines a laser at the surface and can detect the reflective areas by the amount of laser light they reflect back. When you record the writing laser changes its transparency and the reflectivity of the disc. When this information is mirrored back it is 1's and zero’s are decoded back into the original data, processed and sent out.  Laserdiscs were huge because they are based on CD technology and data density, so it had to be huge and two sided to hold all the video and audio data. They were originally the first discs that played movies before DVDs and VHS tapes came out. An Ultrabook is a laptop that meets Ultra requirements. It's ultra-thin, ultra-light, and ultra-powerful. Due to the limited size and space that they have available, they typically do not have the common laptop features such as disc drives and ports. Students, due to the convenience of weight and space use many Ultrabooks. Minidiscs were used as data storage devices of audio or select data. A minidisc has the shape of a cd but smaller, and is used to record sound or data as well as play that data back. Many of these inventions are very interesting to me because I am very inspired by the way, they started out, and made better throughout the years.