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Holographic Storage Overview at CNET
encebollado writes: "CNET has an article about how holography is being used to create next generation storage devices. The researchers promise they'll beat out DVD by an order of magnitude." Actually, it's an overview with four separate articles -- no bets on when the technology covered will really be available though.
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"Dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire" --Robert Frost
The music was a little loud for Kaye's taste, but the students seemed to be having a good time, and Kaye didn't really have anything else to do, so she didn't mind that when principal Ray Devlin asked her to chaperone the Saturday night dance in the school gym. A local dejay was playing all the latest CD's, and with about a half hour to go, he had slowed the pace down, giving the kids a chance to have a few slow dances. It looked like it would turn out to be an uneventful evening, until Cal Norridge showed up. Right from the get go Kaye could see that he had been drinking, so she quickly moved towards him to prevent any altercations he might start up. When she stepped in front of him, her nostrils were filled with the pungent aroma of fresh liquor, and she hoped that she could get him to leave without causing a scene. "Cal," she began, "since you've been drinking I think you had better leave, school property is no place for that kind of activity!" Cal gave a short harsh laugh and replied insolently, "Who's been drinking, I don't see anyone drinking!!!" Taking him by the arm, she started to lead him to the front door, but instead of going out, he veered off and headed down one of the dark corridors, laughing and singing as he went! "Drunk as a skunk," she thought to herself, as she took off after him!
By the time she caught up to him, they were far away from the gym, and as he turned to face her he said, "Hey pretty teacher, you've got nice tits, why don't you let me touch them, while reaching out his hand for a quick feel!!! Kaye jumped back, but not soon enough, and the insolent junior's fingers brushed over her heavy chest! "Stop that," she barked, "stop that this instant and go home!!!" Getting even bolder, Cal, a nineteen year old incorrigible, quickly cornered her, and pressed his body against hers, groping her ass as he pulled her closer to him, and for the first time, she felt a stab of fear in her stomach, they were a long ways from help, and Cal was strong as an ox! Fighting to push him away, she said through clenched teeth, "Stop this at once or I'll scream!!!" Cal just laughed and covered her mouth with his forcing his tongue into her mouth, Frenching her right there in the hall!!! She almost gagged from the taste of bourbon, but Cal kept kissing her, while cupping her ass with one hand, and kneading her breasts with the other!!! Being a young woman with a naturally strong sex drive and no steady boy friend, the feeling of having a man so close made her knees grow weak and her resolve wane! Even though he wasn't as experienced as someone older, Cal could sense right away that she was his for the taking, so dropping his hand from her boobs, he reached down and unzipped his pants and slid his thickening pecker out into the night air! Kaye couldn't believe what was happening, but her clit had totally taken over her senses, and she automatically reached down and slowly began fisting the hard cock that stood up proudly between them!!!
While she was doing him, he started to unbutton Kaye's blouse, while muttering under his breath, "I've always wanted to see what these babies looked like, and now I'm gonna get my chance!!!" Her bra was low cut and lacy, and her 36D's hung full and firm in their nylon cups. Kaye's breasts had always been exceptionally sensitive to the touch, and having a nineteen year old feeling her up sent shock wave after shock wave straight to her now throbbing clit, and she whispered hoarsely into his ear, "Do you like my bra, it's a D-cup!?!" "Oh sweet jesus, yes," he moaned, "I've never seen anything like it!!!" Slipping her boobs from her bra, Kaye thrust her chest upward, a clear invitation that she wanted him to orally partake of her beautiful chest, and although his technique was a little rough, the nibbling and sucking of her rubbery nipples caused her to moan out loud and beg him for more, and so for the next five minutes or so, she got the tit sucking of a lifetime!!! With her clit growing hotter by second, Kaye all at once had an overwhelming desire to take Cal's cock into her mouth and suck him off!!! She pulled her nipple from his mouth and offered, "My turn now," and dropping to her knees, let the fat erection pop into her waiting mouth!!! "Oh, god," he groaned, "I'm cumming!!!" Kaye was now almost in a frenzy for cock, and as Cal's pecker erupted, she swallowed every drop from the spurting baby maker!!!
After savoring the hot load of the young stud, Kaye stood up, leaned against a locker, hiked her skirt up above her waist, and ordered, "Okay, stud, show mama how good a cunt lapper you can be!!!!" Like a magnet drawn to metal, Cal's tongue made a beeline straight for Kaye's pussy, where it bored in on her fully erect clit!!! Now it was her turn to feel an orgasm racing through her loins, and she lifted a nipple to her mouth to speed up the process!!! She sucked her nipple harder and harder, using her own body knowledge to make her climax even more intense!!! Again, Cal was short on technique and long on effort, but that was always better than having a so called "expert" beat around the bush and leave you hanging!!! A slick tongue meeting a slick clit always caused Kaye to have her most intense orgasms, and Cal's relentless assault on her sex, her own oral attention to her nipples, coupled with the fact that she hadn't had a climax in over two days resulted in an orgasm that left her literally shaking like a leaf in a strong breeze!!!
Now completely disheveled, Kaye quickly began putting herself back together, so she could return to the dance, while at the same time telling Cal, "Now, you have to get out of here, or we're both in big trouble!!!" Cal gave her a lopsided grin, helped her return her tits back to their prison, and said, "Ya know what, teach, I think I'm gonna need some after school tutoring, don't you?!?" She just smiled and answered, "My room, tomorrow after school, be there!!!"
THE END
...And the Earth turned green. After 1,000 years of utter darkness, the dismal burnt grays, blacks, and browns gave way to new life, and the earth was anew. Vegetation sprang forth from the heart of the Earth, and the new waters flowed freely filling the chasms that seven great waters once called their homes. The sun emerged with a radiating brightness, a brightness kept hidden from the shadows of the Earth for one thousand years. A recovering sun blinded so long ago by the dismal acts of man as a flash of heat and light brought about Earth's total destruction. A light allowed once again to shine by the Almighty God as he made the great decision to restore life to this vast planet. Man--God's own sweet gentle creation, an experiment gone bad--a being once punished by the ravages of flood, received a chance at perfect redemption, many chances, in fact. The rainbow towering across the sky stood as a symbol of God's promise to never repeat those acts. The Cross of Jesus Christ, mankind's second chance. But greed and technology proved to be man's impending doom. The demise of all life as known on Earth fell into the hands of four mortals, saviors in their follower's eyes, but wicked demons in the eyes of the Lord. God did not regret letting man destroy himself. Man was an imperfect design, a flawed creation. Nothing like the plans spread upon the drawing board. Nothing at all. And so it came that God descended upon the Earth in the hour of rebirth to design his new mankind, a perfect creation. A being which would never be compelled to sin, the only creation. Mankind's fatality rested in the hands of Adam and Eve, the original sinners. God would let no other animals roam free over the earth, so the Devil would have no means of delivering his vile sermon. These new inhabitants of the Earth would have no means of logical thinking, no emotions, no mind. They would be a step down from the former human race. And thus after the plans were completed, from the soul of Heaven, Leroy was cast down into the swamps of Bogue Chitto. And the Lord looked at what He had created, and He was pleased. And the Lord called this new race "Astron." A perfect species was this Astron. Leroy would need no mate, for he was created the perfect asexual being capable of producing up to sixteen siblings every sixth full moon. Leroy's descendants would be clones, so vanity would not exist. The Lord gave this race inner abilities to release safe amounts of natural chemicals into their bloodstream giving them a feeling of peace and oneness with their Maker. For this reason, Astrons would have no use for drugs or other intoxicants. They were also built without a respiratory system or mouth, so temptations such as tobacco and super supreme pizzas would be no more. Astrons were designed without the ability to communicate with one another. The Lord wanted Astrons to only be able to communicate with Him, and they did so telepathically. God allowed Leroy to wander about the swamplands of Bogue Chitto for seven days and seven nights to familiarize himself with his new home. Then on the seventh night, God spoke. "Leroy, listen very carefully. I have given you my Earth and everything in it. You are my new perfect creation, and I have life sustaining instructions for you. If you choose to follow these instructions, you will have everlasting life. If you choose not to, you shall perish. Do you understand, Leroy?" "Yes, Lord. I understand. What is your will?" "Leroy, as I said before, you are the sole heir of this planet; it is yours to keep. I have only one rule for you to live by. Do not eat of the sacred turnip patch beside the watermelons of life. I will take care of all other things, but I cannot keep you from the sacred turnips. You must have the will and determination to follow this one rule yourself." "But, Lord? How can I eat of anything? I have no mouth. I cannot eat without a mouth." "Leroy, I have made you special. You will eat by holding the food in your hands. Concentrate on it carefully and it will be absorbed into your body filling your cravings of hunger. There are many foods to eat on this vast planet, Leroy. If you obey this one rule, this earth will repay you ten-fold. If you choose to disobey, you shall perish." "But, Lord, what shall I do for a mate?" "You need no mate. You have been created in the light of perfection, therefore, you need only Me as a mate. I must go now, Leroy. I have a meeting with the angels." "But Lord. Lord?" No reply. Nothing. Leroy sat for a while pondering his first conversation with his Creator. Then his stomach began to growl. He arose to search for sustenance. The first sign of fruitful vegetation he found was the sacred turnip patch. He looked throughout the patch at the ripe green leaves. He wanted to stop and eat of the turnips, but he remembered God had forbidden him to do so. He kept walking. Past the watermelons of life, through the tomatoes of righteousness, around the butterbeans of immortality, to the sweet potatoes of faith. He stopped in the sweet potato patch to feast. He grabbed two potatoes. One disappeared, then the other. He felt his stomach begin to fill. He grabbed two more. Just then he heard a small voice intruding into his telepathic communications system, but it wasn't the voice of his Master. He looked down to see a small black creature with a hard shell and two antennae protruding from its head. What man had referred to as a "cockroach." "Hey, man, or whatever the hell they call you things now. Why you eatin' them nasty potatoes. Go out there and get you a mess of them greens. Them greens are good and fresh." God looked down upon the Earth and shook His head. He had forgotten that nuclear holocaust had had no effect on cockroaches. So there was, in fact, one creature left for Satan to exhort his wretched doctrine through. God watched the cockroach do his work. "I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, 'What is this? I thought God said I was the only creation. So where did this little bastard come from?' Well, I got a little news for you. God's been lying to you. You aren't the only creation, and He knew that. There's a lot of things he's not telling you, and a lot of things he's lying to you about. See, He don't want you to eat of the sacred turnip patch because He plans on creating another being superior to you, and you will be enslaved by this new creation. The turnips are being saved for them because they will give them the power to dominate your race. C'mon, Leroy. I got a little cornbread stashed in a hole. We can feast like kings." Leroy followed the vile creature back to the sacred turnip patch and pulled up turnips holding the leaves in one hand and the cornbread in the other. Within a matter of seconds the greens and bread were gone. Soaked into his skin. Then a strange feeling came over Leroy. His stomach began to cramp and he fell to the ground in agony, swelled up, and exploded into a million pieces. The Lord knelt down and wept showering a mist about the Earth as the cockroach ate and laughed. It seemed that Leroy just didn't understand the Lord's reason for keeping him away from the turnips. There would be no other creation to dominate his race, he had just been created highly allergic to turnip greens
Text: The company is InPhase Technologies and the kind of holographic storage that it demonstrated earlier this year at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas is not about projecting 3D images but is about the permanent storage of any form of digital information. Imagine 2GB of data in an area the size of a postage stamp or a disc the size of a DVD that holds 20 fulllength movies instead of just one. The basic concept is that data is stored as patterns of light in three dimensions instead of as 0s and 1s on a flat surface. The promise is storage capacity and transfer rates an order of magnitude greater than today's DVD discs. Imagine 2GB of data in an area the size of a postage stamp or a disc the size of a DVD that holds 20 fulllength movies instead of just one. (For more see The whys and hows of holographic storage.) InPhase isn't the only company testing products in the holographic storage field. But its recent splashy demo of its prototype drive dubbed Tapestry grabbed the spotlight and wowed skeptical industry observers. By 2004 the company hopes to begin shipping its new drive to the professional video market. InPhase's longrange plans include licensing its technology to other manufacturers targeting any number of markets including yes the consumer distribution of movies. This technology has a very high geek factor; read here from InPhase's own Web site: The ability to store vast amounts of information in the form of light is an achievement that transcends the merely scientific approaching almost religious meaning. It is for this reason that within the scientific community holographic data storage has become a sort of holy grail for information technology. This means there are a lot of whitecoat types out there rooting for InPhase and companies like it. But the problem is not really the science; plenty of working prototypes including InPhase's Tapestry drive exist today. The problem is that today's holographic drives and the extremely delicate media that go with them cost a fortune to make and distribute. And when considering these obstacles even other holography researchers are skeptical. Says Hans Coufal a researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center and one of the principal investigators of the Holographic Data Storage Systems Consortia I wish them well. How do holographic storage proponents answer the raised eyebrows? Theirs is the certainty that the current DVD format will eventually max out its capacity. Given that the hunger for digital storage will never abatefor applications from highdefinition video on the consumer side to medical imaging to digital cinemasomething will eventually come along to replace it. Why not holographic drives? The whys and hows of holographic storage The whys The theory of holographic data torage is nearly 40 years old. Major companiesIBM Rockwell Lucent Polaroid and Samsunghave spent millions studying it not to mention research subsidized in the '90s by the American taxpayers through the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Bill Gates called it an exotic improvement in The Road Ahead; Scientific American has called it the great white whale of technology research. All these players have kept chasing the whale because magnetooptical storage technologies are closing in on the finite physical limitations of their capacity or areal density in industry lingo. Drive and media makers can still squeeze out some additional capacity; for example the new Bluray format will buck up the DVD industry for at least a few years. But if you look 10 years out today's technologies will start hitting the wall. Existing storage technologies are starting to reach the point where they can no longer advance says Skip Kilsdonk the InPhase vice president of business development. If you look 10 years out today's technologies will start hitting the wall. In contrast holographic storage systems promise both increased capacity and faster transfer rates. There are several larger industry trends spurring InPhase and its competitors to get out the starting gate such as the professional broadcast industry's gradual move to digital formats; the transition to highdefinition video which requires roughly 10 times the storage space of today's DVD movies; increased broadband delivery of multimedia content; and the popularization of the home digital hub idea; not to mention the prospect of virtualreality video games. The hows In greatly simplified terms here's how it works. A single laser beam is split into two: the signal beam that carries the data and the reference beam. The data is encoded on the signal beam by a device called a spatial light modulator which translates the 1s and 0s of digital data into a pattern of light and dark pixels and arranges them on an array or page of about a million bits. Each of these pages is a hologram that is recorded onto a lightsensitive storage medium at the point where the signal beam and the reference beam intersect. To reconstruct the data a laser with the same properties as the reference beam is trained on the media and projects the entire hologram or page onto a detector which reads the pattern of light as data; this means that the information is being read in parallel 1 million bits at a time which is the key to holography's fast transfer rates. Multiple holograms can be superimposed over each other within the same volume of the storage media by changing the angle or the wavelength of the reference beam when it's recorded which is the key to holography's enormous capacity. It is as if you were taking several exposures on the same frame of film but with holograms the reference beam can separate out each individual page. The technique breaks the current paradigm of optical storage in two ways. First the ability to store hundreds of holograms superimposed over one another means that volumes of data can be stored in a small physical space. Second the technology allows data to be written and read in parallel instead of serially allowing incredibly fast transfer rates. The throughput is not based on spinning the disc faster explains InPhase vice president of marketing Liz Murphy. The capacity is not based on making the pits smaller as with optical disks. The capacity we get is based on recording through three dimensions and the transfer rate is based on reading and writing in parallel. Holography proponents advise us to equate it with the process of taking a picture. Much like using a digital camera I'm recording megapixels at a time rather than an individual pixel at a time says Rusty Rosenberger director of business development at Imation a datastorage and informationmanagement company and a major InPhase investor. But while taking the picture is parallel recording the time it takes me to transfer the picture to my PC is serial recording...It's the transfer rates that make it unique as opposed to just capacities. The why not so why don't you have a holographic drive hooked up in your house right now? Because no one has been able to figure out how to massmanufacture them. The recording methods are too expensive and the photosensitive recording mediathe discs on which the data is storedare far too delicate to distribute. It's those very hurdles that made InPhase's first semipublic demo last April so dramatic.
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