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Interesting--CDs 'could be history in five years'

story here
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm...atestheadlines

CDs 'could be history in five years'

Compact discs could be history within five years,
superseded by a new generation of fingertip-sized memory
tabs with no moving parts.

Scientists say each paper-thin device could store more
than a gigabyte of information - equivalent to 1,000 high
quality images - in one cubic centimetre of space.

snip

It's claimed that turning the invention into a
commercially viable product might take as little as five
years.

The card would not involve any moving parts, such as the
laser and motor drive required by compact discs. Its
secret is the discovery of a previously unknown property
of a commonly-used conductive plastic coating.

snip

A report in the journal Nature described how the
researchers identified a new property of a polymer called
PEDOT.

PEDOT, which is clear and conducts electricity, has been
used for years as an anti-static coating on photographic
film. Researchers looked at ways of using PEDOT to store
digital information. In the new memory card, data in the
form of ones and zeroes would be represented by polymer
pixels.

When information is recorded, higher voltages at certain
points in the circuit grid would "blow" the PEDOT fuses
at those points. As a result, data is permanently etched
into the device. A blown fuse would from then on be read
as a zero, while an unblown one that lets current pass
through is read as a one.

more

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm...atestheadlines

. .
The world gets more science-fictiony everyday! Sometimes
I think science fiction is actually driving some of these
inventions, because the people who perfect these things
got their ideas from sf that was written 10-20 years ago.

Dirk

Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2003 by dirk

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Tommy Lee Jones in MIB: "Looks like I'll have to buy the
White Album again

"People are marvelous in their generosity if they just
know the cause is there." - Will Rogers

Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2003 by Richardo

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Great ...

but where's my jet pack so I can fly to where I want to
go? And my underwater and space cities?

In the United States, anybody can be president. That's
the problem. - George Carlin

Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2003 by meegbear

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I saw it coming the first second I saw a USB jump drive

512 meg in a tab smaller than a pen cap? Imagine how cool
it would be to just plug one into the dashboard (or home
stereo port) and listen. Hell, you could carry your
favorite music around on a freakin keyring!

This species has amused itself to death

Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2003 by BigMcLargehuge

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So how are you going to record information on these
little wafers? Sounds more like the memory sticks used in
STNG.

Proud President of the DU Johnny Depp Fan Club!

Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2003 by supernova

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great

more things to lose. notice how, as data storage gets
smaller, you lost more and more of it? used to be,
someone steals your bag, you lose a CD or three. Now you
lose your Ipod. next, you lose your keys, and all your
data is gone., super.

Posted on Thursday, November 13, 2003 by northzax

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