Google just can’t leave anything alone. Give them two minutes with a computer and a couple of engineers and they’ll have reinvented something, made it better, quicker, smarter, easier. It’s what they do. So what have they been up to now, those nerdy rascals? Their latest means of improving the world is.. images. Fresh from their latest successes in speeding up the web via DNS and prioritizing our inboxes, Google is now looking at images as an area ripe for improvement. Since the inception of the web, the same formats have been used with little change. GIF was first, a small but low quality format designed…

The good news: Blu-Ray has released a new format standard, bumping the capacity of a single disc up to a brainbusting 128gigs! Now maybe Avatar and its features will fit on a single disc after all. The bad news: The new format doesn’t work on your current Blu-Ray player. Looks like it’s time to upgrade again. Maybe. Right now, you can cool your jets – the new format is strictly being released to the pro sector, for those who require high-capacity storage options. But every new storage medium begins that way, and it’s likely only a matter of time before we see lonely current-gen Blu-Ray players…