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NTT Develops Stamp-Size 1GB Hologram Memory
sandalwood writes "NTT has developed a new high-capacity memory storage device based on thin-film holography called Info-MICA. The official site is here but it's only in Japanese for now. According to the article, 'NTT is planning to bring the first commercial Info-MICA products to market in 2005 with a postage stamp-size ROM and a memory capacity of 1GB.' My first thought was that it would be perfect for a future handheld game device!"
Is it more reliable than flash memory? I've heard there's a couple rovers that could probably use an upgrade ;)
...they mean never.
... that's almost 1/3rd the size of my hard drive.
:)
I really need to upgrade my hardware some time
Great news for those of us wishing to have enough physical space to install UT2005.
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Hopefully they'll develop one that can go on my arm right next to the nicotine patch, for when I'm on vacation and away from my computers.
I want the Positronic brain! Stick that baby in my head and I'm good to go for a perfect score on the GRE!
This is my sig.
Portable pr0n. Yeehaw!
You are more than the sum of what you consume. Desire is not an occupation.
And my forst thought was "postage stamp"?! WTF is a postage stamp!?!?.. Haven't they heard of email??..
I've heard of thin-film holography before but I didn't think too progress was being made in the way of making it more robust. Does anyone know if this stuff will be reliable? or...will we be creating something even less reliable than a zip disk :)
<conspiracy type='rant'>Perhaps, this technology is being secretly funded by the zip disk industry in an attempt to make their technology look that much better. For that reason I say down with thin-film holography</conspiracy>
--Thei Antispamist A useless endevor that will cer
My first thought was that it would be perfect for a future handheld game device!
My first thought was that it would be perfect to store 3D porn images.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
This plays right into their plans for a $379 first-class postage rate increase.
FYI: he also cut off his own dick.
With no exposed optical surface to get scratched, durability could be a lot better than optical discs.
Yeah, the last thing the movie industry wants is me buying 4 replacement copies of Scooby Doo every time the kids destroy it.
Last I read about thin film holography, it was very tempermental with regard to climate conditions, ie; it doesnt like to get too cold or warm else the film warps.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Next year, a 2GB chip line is started with the brand name "Isolinear"
You could only put film and music with small titles on it. Anything too long and it will be too small to read. I mean, you couldn't put "Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World" on it.
I've got that problem with MMC cards already. I've got dozens of the buggers and I always end up listening to AC/DC all day because I have no idea what's on the others. Too small to write on you see.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
It's amazing how storage limits can be passed without much significant fanfare. Then I harken back to the days when a 50 MB hard drive was the size of an unabridged Proust novel!
They're japanese dude - that was their first thought too!
Great, now I have to get my kids to do that "N.E.S. cartrage dance" (wipe, wiggle, reset, eraser head) thingy when we change movies.
Hopefully edge connector tech. will be better too.
it was like that when I got here.. I wasen't here when that happened... second shift musta done that....