New Idea for a new type of CD drive.......

Ok , So I had a sudden idea about this and I thought I better post it quickly just incase anyone does attempt to do it , You saw it here first guys!

There are a couple of other possible concepts I have in mind about systems but im gonna keep those to myself because they are awesome and I may develop them lol Maybe once they are ready ill show everyone....
Anyway , Back onto this thing.. I have an MSI wind , and I was thinking the only bad points are No cd drive and power , So I though well Power will be fixed easily in the future with mroe advanced CPU's but a cd drive... That will always take up space..

So here is my idea , Meant for UMPC's and netbooks , Its about the size of a USB thumb drive (The standard size ones , not the stupidly tiny ones).


As you can see , Ive done a lil sctech of the corner of a netbook.
The Blue dotted line is the "CD/DVD" and the black dotted line is where the device will be stored in when not in use. The one I drew Up had an eject feature with a small motor inside that turns a cog which lines up with the system , Its hard to explain, If this idea takes off , which i doubt it would , Then Ill do into further detail of how it works.


Anyway , Cant be botherd to write anymore right now lol... Ill finish this later , Leave you guys with my lil Picture.

The purpose of this isnt to replace a CD drive though guys , Its just to be used on netbooks to make the flippin hudge cd drives not so massive , I mean the CD spins outside of the notebook , So its not like your gonna want to watch a whole movie from it.


Soo Have fun guys!! Maybe ill attempt to make this someday , Ya never know what could happen.

(PS) if any big guys like sony or apple see this thread and wanna use this design , Then screw ya , Tis my idea.. Nah only messin.. But if your gonna use it lool.. I wouldnt mind being notified

 

Once it is posted on a public forum (like this), its public domain. I'm not a patent lawyer, but posting it here gives you NO protection whatsoever.

UPDATE: While it doesn't give you rights to the idea, I just realized that you could probably de-bunk other companies patents as you would be able to illustrate this post as "prior art" that they found and used as their own. So it doesn't help you, just hurts them.

 

That is a pretty sweet idea, hmm. It's seems like it would have been an idea already. Basically, its the component arm of the disk drive, without the disk support/housing. I don't see how it wouldn't work, except for the fact that you would need to be careful so you don't bump the disk and interrupt the read/write process when you are using it.

 

No offense but I don't really think that's very practical. In fact, I'd much rather have some other device taking up that space, like a WAN card or B/T or more storage. This would never become mainstreamed because the slightest movement could throw the disc off, and makes it very easy to accidentally damage the media (and I guess the drive too, so much leverage on that arm). Cool concept nonetheless, but I just don't think it's your million dollar idea.

 

You have to think about safety too-having any chance that the laser radiation could be exposed to the user could be a huge liability risk...

 

lol

To the OP: It'd be hard to stabilize the arm of the Rotor.

 

Lol... I was messing around , Im not really gonna patent this or try and get the rights to the design, I just thought its a neat option. But yeah , It wouldnt be difficult to design this , Its possible to make somthing like this pretty sturdy. I mean yeah.. Not the most practical of designs I guess , But when space is really important on a device then somthing like this is really useful , I wouldnt mind having one of these in my MSI wind for sure

 

You'd have a heck of a time keeping the disc attached to it to, with the increased movment from lack of support I could see it shaking the disk right off.

It would make a good flying death disc launcher though.

But don't get discouraged, your head is in the right place.

 

WEll, I'll be optimistic about it and say imagine if you added blades around the edge of a CD to a CD made of extra-hard steel and tipped by tungsten .

 

Then you'd have a sharp, slowly spinning disc that would soon burn out the motor

 

That's not a hard fix, there are some methods that can easily keep the disc attached, for example, you can add an extra arm/cover on top that snaps down to it. Actually, I can see this work, but more suitable for those smaller sized 80 mm CD and DVD. The current 80 mm DVD can still store up to 5.2 GB of data.