For a Bigger Hard-drive, Just Add Water
Sunday, May 14, 2006
"Imagine having computer memory so dense that a cubic centimeter
contains 12.8 million gigabytes of information. Imagine an iPod playing
music for 100 millennia without repeating a single song or a USB
thumb-drive with room for 32.6 million full-length DVD movies. Now
imagine if this could be achieved by combining a computing principle
that was popular in the 1960s, a glass of water and wire
three-billionths of a meter wide. Science fiction? Not exactly."
Amazing new technology! Read more here.
contains 12.8 million gigabytes of information. Imagine an iPod playing
music for 100 millennia without repeating a single song or a USB
thumb-drive with room for 32.6 million full-length DVD movies. Now
imagine if this could be achieved by combining a computing principle
that was popular in the 1960s, a glass of water and wire
three-billionths of a meter wide. Science fiction? Not exactly."
Amazing new technology! Read more here.