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

How much???

[josh crawley]

These things look sweet! I know they wont work in most car stereos since they're too thin. How much is it for a hundred of these things and are these cdr compatible? I want to burn these suckers and try them in my cd player in my car (cd player with tape adapter).

However, if they're like the business cd ripoffs, they'll charge a obscene price (1.5 to 2 X of normal cdr's). They'll rot on the shelf.

WHY?

[MartyJG]

This is one of those 'new tech' stories that gets posted without any explanation of 'Why', or 'How does this affect me?'. According to the website, all they can come up with is putting CD's inside a magazine instead of outside them, and perhaps wrapping a CD around a Coke can!?

What the story and the site fail to mention is why *I* Mr Joe Public, Mr Regular Consumer, Mr What's Wrong with normal CD's anyway would need a flexible CD for.

I've got enough pointless disks on my desk without loosing more between papers or inside books. I don't want the three AOL CD's I get each week to become thirty just because they can get them to me easier. I don't want to find a CD on my next Pepsi/Coke/Whatever with a 5mb Macromedia advert on it. I know 'because we can' is a good reason for case mods, Pringles-wireless-lan-cans and hacking, but not for changing something most people don't have a problem with (some places call this a 'standard').

I know this is a self-rightous rant that deserves much flame, and a few sensible suggestions for uses from people who've always wanted flexible CD's, but neither the website or CmdrTaco have come up with a reason for me to care about this huge milestone in technological advances.