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Individual Atom Memory Created

Posted by chrisd on from the we're-all-individuals dept.

azav writes "University of Wisconsin-Madison Scientists have created "atomic scale" memory using individual atoms of Silicon." A cool photo can be found on the site as well.

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  1. Bah! by DarkHelmet · · Score: 5, Funny
    University of Wisconsin-Madison Scientists have created "atomic scale" memory using individual atoms of Silicon." A cool photo can be found on the site as well.

    Single atom memory? How stable do they REALLY expect that to be?

    Ha! What's the name of the technology? Alzheimer's Access Memory?

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  2. Obvious comments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of those

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    Business plan:

    1. Make atomic memory thingy
    2. ?????
    3. Profit

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    This story is a repeat

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    There is a spelling mistake in the article

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    How long before the site is slashdotted

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    This is *not* a troll!!! The moderators are well out of order

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    Why don't we have a slashdot poll:

    What is best:

    (*) Atomic memory
    (*) Magnetic storage
    (*) Optical storage

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    How long before it is patented?

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    This is NOT news!!! How could you possibly put this on the front page, and yet you rejected my posts about Buffy and Microsoft doing something wrong, the moderators are well out of order.

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    Now that we have got all those over with in one go, can the trollers just shut up, and leave us alone - PLEASE? I think I covered eveything, but I'm sure I'll be corrected if not.

  3. What the picture says... by Kredal · · Score: 5, Funny

    "If you can read this, you're WAAAY too close!"

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  4. Feynman failed to anticipate MS Word by Subcarrier · · Score: 4, Funny

    In 1959, physics icon Richard Feynman predicted that all the words written in the history of the world could be contained in a cube of material one two-hundredths of an inch wide.

    And then we'd need a new search engine just to find the damn thing.

    Fortunately, the text would probably be stored in the innovative MS Word format, which guarantees that the physical size of the required storage capacity will remain constant over time, no matter what the information density of the storage medium.

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  5. Atom walks into the bar. by Typingsux · · Score: 4, Funny
    Says to the bartender "I think I lost an electron"

    Bartender replies "Are you sure?"

    Atom thinks for a second: "Yea I'm positive."

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  6. FLT by Alsee · · Score: 4, Funny

    I found a remarkable proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, but this 512 terabyte memory cube is too small to contain it.

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  7. Re:what was that.. by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    about moore's law?

    And a brick wall?

    Methinks there is no higher density than bit-per-atom.

    6.02x10^23 Kb ought to be enough for anyone.