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New, Flexible CDs Arrive

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-I-liked-shattering-CDs dept.

Mortin writes "A company called Flexstorm has developed a new type of CD, dubbed flexCD, that is about 140 microns thick, 1/10th that of a normal CD, and most importantly flexible. The technical specs on this new technology are quite impressive, boasting a weight of only .6 grams on the flexCD 80. Producing a flexCD also only takes .3 seconds, less than that of a normal CD."

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  1. It's for sticking in magazines... by waytoomuchcoffee · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was tried before ("Thindisk Flexible Media"), as a new way to stick CDs into magazines. If you thought the AOL CDs were bad before, wait until next year.

  2. Re:Car by tylerdave · · Score: 2, Informative

    I see there's an adaptor that allows it to play in most current cd players.

  3. Re:cd's in printed materials by BigBlockMopar · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm old enough to remember when some books and magazines included analog records printed on sheets of plastic ... particularly music instruction books, and things of that nature.

    "Sound Sheets", they were called.

    Memories:

    • "Sound Sheets should not be used with automatic record changers."
    • "Place Coin Here If Sound Sheet Slips"

    I remember as a kid, when Pierre Elliot Trudeau did that big constitution thing with the queen back in 1981, the newspaper came with Sound Sheets of the Canadian national anthem. Somewhere, I still have that and a few other sound sheets.

    One of them is a little mutilated. At the ripe old age of 7, I *had* to know what would happen if I put it onto the old BSR record changer.

    And now, it's consoling that a new generation shall know the horror.

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  4. Re:So... by Mr+Windows · · Score: 2, Informative
    Hmmm , I think that at 40x, the edge of the disk is moving at about 188 metres/second. Quite fast: about 678 thousand kmh, though my arithmetic is probably wrong somewhere. At that speed, the bit of glass in your CD reader lens is (ahem) toast...

    Not that this actually applies; the disk itself would be safely tucked between rigid sheets, and the lens is (hopefully) a safe distance from the CD itself.

  5. specs converted from pdf to html by Khopesh · · Score: 4, Informative

    in case you hate pdfs that could easily be done in html, adobe has a pdf->html page.

    here's the specs in html.

    basically, there are two flexCDs, named 80 and 120 for their sizes in milimeters. The 8cm disk holds 200mb and the 12cm disk holds an unspecified amount (hopefully 702mb). each disk is 1/10th the thickness of a cd. standard minicd is 8cm and standard cd is 12cm. a 3.5" floppy is 9cm x 9.4cm.

    the adapter has two parts which sandwich the flexCD and go in the non-supporting cdrom drive.

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