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NEWS > TECHNOLOGY > SONY CREATES LIGHTER THAN AIR NOTEBOOK
SONY CREATES LIGHTER THAN AIR NOTEBOOK
October 14 2009
Tokyo, Japan – One standard that has carried through all electronics and mechanics has been miniaturization. Across every field and over centuries of invention the size of components, and in relation the size of machines has steadily declined, resulting in 
ever more capable and aesthetically appealing devices. In recent years, the trend toward miniaturization has moved away from necessity to marketing with components starting to reach a finite size. One area that has been most evident has been in the personal laptop market which has taken the shrinking in size, and most importantly in weight, to an entirely new level.
Enter into that the Sony VAIO XI, a top secret project due to be released sometime in 2010 which according to internal documents uncovered exclusively by Scrape TV News will actually be lighter than air. It was only yesterday that Sony announced the VAIO X which the company claims is the lightest notebook yet released, that is at least until next year. Already HP, Toshiba, and Samsung have reportedly begun working on their own lighter than air machines in hopes of competing with the upcoming Sony machine.
“I haven’t seen the full machine yet for obvious reasons but I’ve seen prototypes and a lot of the components and I can tell you that they are definitely lighter than air. Even in the lab they have to keep them stored inside a case to prevent them from floating away and they have this kind of spongy ceiling just in case something does get free. It really is incredible technology that could revolutionize the industry,” said a Sony insider who preferred to remain anonymous. “I really think they are setting the standard with this one. For years everyone has been trying to one up each other but I don’t see how they are going to overcome something that actually floats. Of course they are going to have trouble keeping it people’s laps and they are going to have to tether it somehow but those are small problems in the big picture.”
Not so fast though, according to Apple insiders who claim the company has been working with lighter than air materials for a number of years only to find them a dead end. The company has dropped the program in favour of a type of anti-gravity components. 
“It’s really been a hush-hush kind of project inside the company but the community has been buzzing about it for years. It’s a little tough to explain but the pieces will give back air and density to the environment and the user. It will exist outside our environment, not just repel it,” said Scrape TV Technology analyst Ken Kevins. “Realistically it’s the kind of revolutionary technology that could be applied to all kinds of fields but of course the computer field is the first to utilize it effectively. Apple didn’t invent the tech but they are the first ones to put it into use. We still don’t have a date on when it will be released but this information coming out of the Sony camp could mean it’s happening sooner rather than later.”
Other applications could potentially include construction, emergency aid, and other projects that require significant amounts of heavy lifting.
“It may, on the surface, seem a little odd and even silly to be applying all of this potentially world changing technology to laptops but they really are an incredibly important part of the growing home computer market and thus an important part of the economy,” continued Kevins. “There is some concern that the companies will turn the technology into a proprietary entity and thus make it inaccessible to the rest of society and potentially limit life saving technology. That’s when we know the lightness war has gone a little out of control.”
Panasonic has been reportedly working on a laptop weighing nothing and is completely invisible, though are reportedly far from bringing it to market.
Martin Philton, Technology Correspondent
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