For this I Googled "best new technology" and settled on an article called "Some of the Best New Technology is Simple." Who, after all, can argue with simple, especially when we're talking technology?
The article discussed 10 new pieces of technology, including an electric toothbrush that utilizes 8 microbrushes operating at 810 strokes per minute to enable you to brush both your top and bottom teeth at the same time (while massaging your gums). The thing most pertinent to us at the library, though, is a DVD called the Total Hi-Def disc. Before this, people who bought HD-DVD players could not play Blu-ray discs, and those who bought Blu-ray players couldn't play HD-DVD. In the Total Hi-Def disc Warner Brothers offers what is essentially a double-sided disc--two 0.6 millimeter discs, one HD-DVD and one Blu-ray, bonded together so that the viewer can play one side if he has a Blu-ray player or the other if he has HD-DVD. Convenience like this could lead us into offering HD-DVD/Blu-ray DVDs before long.
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