New, Flexible CDs Arrive

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."

Comments

Have your data and eat it too

[twisted_pickle]

-The Flex CD is non-toxic and may be used with food items

A little bit odd, don't you think?

an interesting concept

[spir0]

but it looks like they're hoping to make more out of their marketing of your pamphlets on their media..

but a few questions I have before I believe that these really do exist...

how thoroughly have these been tested? they are lighter which will lead to the ROMs being able to spin the discs faster, which could be good.

but... these look to be more flexible than floppy disks, and without the external jacket holding them flat. what if the computer is bumped in the middle of a burn?

instead of just a failed CD, will we end up having the media flop around inside the drive and cause damage?

or will the high speed of the spinning disc and the adapter help to keep them flat?

I think that if these can be produced, they will only really be usefull for marketing purposes much like the credit card sized CDs. just a gimmick.

they hold less, and for real applications this just isn't good enough. what would be more useful is trying to cram more data onto the same space.

DVD drives are a step up, but once we can fit 20gig or more onto a CD sized medium, which is accessible as CDs and relatively as cheap as CDs, then we can start making real use of them.. like backup drives.. at the moment, a decent size tape backup unit will cost up to 10's of thousands (NZ dollars anyway)... and a 110/220 gb DLT tape is $500 a piece.

we'll see how it goes