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Philips Blue Laser Itty Bitty Disc Drive

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the little-is-better dept.

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. "

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  1. more pr0n!!! by siliconwafer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sweet. I can fit 1000 of these things in my bed-side stand, vs 30 CD's. And they hold more too. More pr0n!!

  2. Joy! by haa...jesus+christ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now I'll have more small crap to loose! To quote Crow T. Robot - "I wanna dance!" ;)

  3. So I guess a cd sized one would hold 16 gig? by Microsift · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Assuming there's a direct relationship between surface area and memory capacity. so this is nit even a two-fold improvement over DVD (I think a dual layered DVD holds about 9.4G of data).

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  4. In other news... by *xpenguin* · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In other news, i'll continue using my standard 700MB CDs.

  5. Yeesh... by HowlinMad · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I would lose those....too small. ;)

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  6. I've seen this before ... by jkujawa · · Score: 2, Redundant

    "This little sucker is going to replace CDs. Looks like I'm going to have to buy the White Album again." (Men in Black)

  7. Re:coin sized? by ptomblin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why not fit a lot more Gb on a regular sized CD?

    They did that once. It's called "DVD".

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  8. Re:Obliatory Movie Reference by donpardo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Men in Black

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  9. Oh great by Arcturax · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I lose enough change down the couch and car seats, now I have to dig for my CD's too.

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  10. Follow the little links, for 25gb on 5'' by oliverthered · · Score: 1, Redundant

    There's an interesting link at the bottom of the story with infor on "Blu-ray Disc it's exactly what you talking about.

    25gb - (copy protection * encripton )= 650MB.

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