What’s up with the blue products, anyway? Lately we’ve seen Blue from American Express, Pepsi Blue, and now Microsoft has introduced a new line of desktop fall fashions anchored by an Optical Mouse ...

Handling large volumes of physical media can be a bit of a chore, whether it’s about duplication or archiving. Fortunately this is a perfect excuse for building robotic contraptions, with the robots ...

I haven't purchased an optical disc drive (ODD) for my PC since...actually, I don't even recall the last time I bought one. It's even been a minute since I owned a PC with a 5.25-inch drive bay to ...

The FIC Condor is a great small-formfactor case, no doubt about it. Only problem is that I've killed several optical drives by installing and trying to operate them in the vertical slot that is the ...

Can optical drives get new life? That’s the idea behind Hitachi-LG Data Storage’s concept of hybrid optical drives. First shown at Computex last June, Hitachi-LG Data Storage was showing its hybrid ...

Sometimes you may need to reinstall OS X on a computer, but the drive is broken, resulting in an obvious problem with reading the installation DVD. Here are some methods to install OS X around a ...

Consumer-electronics giant Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD. The drive uses 3cm ...