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Shaking Hard Drives Instead of Spinning?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-don't-think-about-that-every-day dept.

Twyko64 writes "A UK startup called Dataslide aims to develop 'hard drives' made of oscillating sheets of LCD-screen-like material with piezo-electronic actuators and many, many read:write heads. A 'hard drive' could be the same size and shape as an LCD screen. I wrote a this piece on Techworld about it."

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  1. gmail invites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    gotta love /. glitches

  3. Re:wtf??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You give the world Bush for another 4 years.. we give you a vibrator...

  4. Active X control by alta · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok, go ahead and mod me off-topic. I'm suddenly, for the first time getting a message about an active-x control on this page. (yeah, IE, got to have it for business reasons, get off my back) I doubt this is flash, because I never get any notifications about flash... Anyone else getting this? Is it something new?

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  5. THANKS!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks for the invite! Now I see what all my friends were talking about!

  6. Re:Piezoelectric by krymsin01 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No kidding...

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  7. Re:I'm shaking mine right now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    king. Sorry I hit submit to soon.

  8. Re:WTF? by gl4ss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    **This is surely the most useless article I've seen posted here---------
    Proudly posting without reading the article since 1998**

    dude, you need a new sig!

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