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Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM
neutron_p writes "A former Soviet Union military development finds its use in modern technology and still remains fascinating." The development comes in the form of a flexible microwire, 10 micrometers thick and 10cm long, with a metal body and a glass coating, which the linked article says "can store 10 Gigabytes of information. It is possible thanks to their magnetic properties. Anyway, it's not that easy. Researchers say that the greatest difficulty will be with the reading of information."
Star Trek geek in me coming out... :)
3 or 5 times thinner than a human hair, these fine threads were invented in the old Soviet Union for military purposes... Data wig? What?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
the greatest difficulty will be with the reading of information
Is the long anticipated write-only memory here at last? Huzzah!
[tinfoilhat]I am sticking to my 5.25" floppy, it's the only reliable way to backup data.[/tinfoilhat]
Researchers say that the greatest difficulty will be with the reading of information.
How the hell can they tell it's there if they can't even read it?
I'm already going batty trying to not lose these fucking tiny cartriges for the Nintendo DS. Now I'm going to have to keep track of a 10cm molecular-width wire and find myself losing them like pencils as they fall out of my pocket.
I have seen the future and it is inconvenient
Backup is easy! The restore is the tricky part.
How the hell can they tell it's there if they can't even read it?
If 10GB of MP3s are written on a wire, and there is no reader to play it. Does it make a sound?
You can't take the sky from me...
I just save everything to /dev/null and I never have a problem with storage space.
I prefer to store all my information by sending it into a black hole. As with the microwires, reading it tends to be a bit difficult.
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Frankly, I'm not horribly impressed.
But, he's got technology that, once he gets it to work, will be very nearly useless! How can you not be impressed?
This innovation should have been covered in Wired .
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Pure crap. I have proven through experimentation that CDs are magnetic. I took a recently-written CD-R and rubbed the bottom vigorously for ten minutes with a permanent magnet. Sure enough, it became unreadable. Not only that, but the bottom isn't shiny anymore.
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I, for one, have been waiting for the Write-Once, Read Never drives.
Let's face it: half the stuff on your drive you're never going to use again anyway. Might as well save it on a data hair so it will not be there when you don't need it.
And these things will be easy to design to follow moore's law. Every 18 months, just put a new label on the package.
Finding women is easy! Talking to them is the tricky part.
What next...vacuum tubes?
You bet! Except they'll be nanovacuum tubes -- The problem, of course, is changing them when they burn out...
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I've got an even better idea - why don't we take several of these new magnetic CDs and stick them in a small metal box that you have permanently inside the computer?
Excuse me, I'm off to the patent office...
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