Sony 50GB Blu-Ray discs

Sony Electronics has begun to ship its 50GB dual layer Blu-Ray discs to the U.S. while confirming its plans to make these recordable media available to everyone else later this year. Each of these 50GB discs can store over four hours of High Definition quality video and boast a 24Mbps transfer rate that empowers users to take advantage of current Blu-Ray disc burners from Sony and VAIO desktop and notebook PCs. These new discs also come with specially re-engineered AccuCORE technology which encompasses scratch guard, archival reliability that prevents data corruption and deterioration, stable writing, and temperature durability. The Sony 50GB dual layer Blu-Ray discs cost about $50 a piece.

Gibraltar Sovereign Bay

Gibraltar is a narrow peninsula south of Spain with sheer cliffs and a mounting of a ‎towering height of 426 meters. The existing harbour is bordered by a naval base on the ‎western side, while sandy beaches stretch along the edges.‎

A proposed marina development will be located on an existing area of reclaimed land to ‎the east of Gibraltar. The new harbour has been engineering to accommodate a full ‎marina for yachts and other watercraft. The sweep of the marina arm provides a focus for ‎retail, coffee shops and restaurant life, terminating in a luxury residential development on ‎the land-side. The scheme includes a comprehensive environmental strategy, which ‎capitalizes on the climate, location and orientation of the buildings, including using ‎seawater from the surrounding Mediterranean Sea to cool the buildings!‎

The residential component will include a range of apartments with private swimming ‎pools, terraces and sea views. The harbour will be connected to a series of landscaped ‎public squares and plazas, with naturally-lit underground parking and direct pedestrian ‎access, which will include a variety of leisure facilities. The special thing about this ‎project is that the design can still evolve to respond to changing needs and market ‎demands. Gibraltar Sovereign Bay is planned to be completed by 2014.‎