Philips Blue Laser Itty Bitty Disc Drive

Acid-F1ux writes "Over at news.com they are running a story about how Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD. "

Comments

Obliatory Movie Reference

[xanadu-xtroot.com]

"I guess I'll have to go buy the White Album again."

Poker nightmare

[Johnso]

Imagine getting drunk, playing cards with your friends, and accidentally placing your pr0n collection as ante instead of a quarter...

Re:Poker nightmare

[Servo5678]

Imagine getting drunk, playing cards with your friends, and accidentally placing your pr0n collection as ante instead of a quarter...

Actually, that might be a convenient way to bet.

"I'll see your $5 and raise you my pr0n stash..."

Re:Poker nightmare

[BoBaBrain]

Imagine getting drunk, playing cards with your friends, and accidentally placing your pr0n collection as ante instead of a quarter...


I doubt you could lose...

You wouldn't get much use from over 1G pr0n unless you had a great hand. :P

Re:Poker nightmare

[curunir]

...unless you had a great hand...

well, you'd definitely have a straight and you might be a little flush to boot.

...but given the nature of pr0n, you'd probably be looking at a full house (queens over/under kings).

Tech Support nightmare...

[InspectorZero]

I'd hate to work in tech support after this technology starts proliferating...

Instead of: "The cup holder on my computer is broken!"

It will become: "The coin slot on my computer ate my quarter! I was just trying to pay for my Amazon order in cash..."

Top worries about small drives

[Dark Paladin]

On the one side, this is cool as hell. On the other side, what about...

• Honey, get the Ex-Lax - your daughter has swallowed her Pokemon Music disk again!
  
• No, I'm looking looking for spare change in the seat cushions, I'm looking for my Nirvana CD.
  
• 1300 MB of storage space...and they still split all the Queen songs I really want across 3 CD's.
  
• Ah, now to drink a nice Mountain Dew and listen to my music - shit, I just used my CD instead of a quarter.
  
• AOL CD's are now air dropped over your house instead of the mail - their small size lets them flutter down like little, shiny snowflakes.
  
• Ever have a problem when you're lying naked on your money, and you accidently get a dime stuck in the crack of your ass? This is much worse.
  
• The CD's aren't just the size of a postage stamp - they become the postage stamp.
  
• 650 MB Gameboy Advance games - no, wait, that's a good thing. (Seriously - imagine putting Final Fantasy VIII on one of those suckers...Hand held Selphie lovin'.)
  

Just some ideas.

Re:Top worries about small drives

[eric2hill]

Ack! I read "Ever have a problem when you're lying naked on your money..." as "Ever have a problem when you're lying naked on your monkey..." and nearly spit Dew all over my monitor!

Yeah, Why?

[Karpe]

I agree! Why don't they keep the 12cm format, allowing people to put GBs of data on it? Can you imagine? You could put a whole movie on MPEG-2 format in such a disk! Perhaps, you could even put extra material, let's say, making ofs, commentaries, etc. They could even create double layered media, allowing for larger capacity. These versatile disks (let's call them DVDs, for Digital Video/Versatil Disk, for now) would be really cool. I would certainly by one!

Re:coin sized?

[Your Pal Dave]

You're just assuming that the coin that they are comparing it with is smaller than a CD. Maybe they are refering to these coins.

You too can earn big $$$ in vending!!!

[JohnDenver]

Do I hear an opportunity knocking on my front door???

[Knock Knock]
Homeowner: May I help you?
Me [beaming]: Hello maam, I'm here to make my rounds.
Homeowner: Your rounds?
Me: I'm here to collect the money in your computer.
Homeowner: Oh yes, right this way...
Me: [tinkering] Maam, Is this a slug?
Homeowner: [shocked] I... I... thought
Me: You thought you could get away with it?
Homeowner: [shakes head]
Me: I'm going to need you to pay your balance off right now, maan.
Homeowner: You take cash?
Me: Why certainly! [smiles + winks + thumbs up]

Re:Great

[n9hmg]

comes on 3 or 4 coin sized CDs
81-108Gb of install media?
Oh, you must mean Office XP 2004 + service packs.

Re:Speed?

[ImaLamer]

1x of course.

;-)

Re:Minidisc?

[Graspee_Leemoor]

"Er, what's 'the way of the minidisc'?"

'The Way of the Minidisc' is an ancient book by Tendo Musashi on the noble art of copyright-infringment.

In the middle ages he and his loyal followers infuriated Feudal Lords by ripping off all their kareoke albums (for great justice!).

graspee

Now I can use my coin sorter...

[indros13]

...as a giant CD rack! What a deal!

Itty Bitty Disc Drive?

[sharkey]

Will it come with an itty-bitty felt-tip pen so I can listen to the content of the discs?

I wonder if blue lasers and...

[i_am_pi]

a paint made from cd-rw material could be used for a new data storage system.

Need more space? just paint some more!

Or just think what could happen if it were used on the body: "Honey, take off your shirt again, I need that file....."

Pi