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Protein-Packed Hard Drives Promise High Capacity

Posted by timothy on from the will-donate-blood-for-this dept.

Digimax writes "The New Scientist has an interesting article on a technology being developed by NanoMagnetics which involves using a protein responsible for storing iron in the body to store data on a hard drive. Is this the start of the BioTech revolution?"

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  1. I'm downloading as fast as I can, Cap'n! by coupland · · Score: 5, Funny

    It seems to me that if hard drive capacities continue to grow at their current rate, in a few years they will have outstripped the porn industry's ability to fill them.

    Pun unintentional...