HP, Princeton Develop New Memory Material

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 12, 2003 @10:11AM from the early-adopters-sought dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Hewlett-Packard and Princeton researchers say they've developed a hybrid material that could be used for super-compact electronic memory, making the CD, DVD and similar media seem enormous and clunky by comparison. As reported by Science Blog, 'The researchers achieved the result by discovering a previously unrecognized property of a commonly used conductive polymer plastic coating. Their memory device combines this polymer, which is inexpensive and easy to produce, with very thin-film, silicon-based electronics.'"

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Hmmmm... by GeneralEmergency · 2003-11-12 10:20 · Score: 3, Funny

Mental note: Must corner market on Hefty Bags.

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5 Years again??? by jetkust · 2003-11-12 10:35 · Score: 3, Funny

Ah, yes, the future will come...In 5 to 10 years.
Re:Not useful for mass distribution of media by Keighvin · 2003-11-12 11:08 · Score: 3, Funny

And we all know that EPROM's are completely useless because of the same thing. Don't show up in anything - not a single device!

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