IBM Reinvents Punch Cards

grim_thing writes "I.B.M. scientists say they have created a data-storage technology that can store the equivalent of 200 CD-ROM's on a surface the size of a postage stamp. Writing in the current issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, researchers at I.B.M.'s laboratories in Zurich report that they have achieved a storage density of one trillion bits of data per square inch, about 25 times as great as current hard disks." Reuters also has a story.

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Re:Perhaps not a disk-replacement, but....

[rmadmin]

What if it gets bent? With a high density like that, a crease down the middle, or even a curve in the paper(or other material) could mean losing a few gigs of backup. And what if some numbnutz licks it thinking its a stamp!?! OH NO!? erm.. ok, I'll shutup now.