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Microwires Can Replace The DVD-ROM

Posted by timothy on from the not-your-kommandant's-wire-recorder dept.

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."

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  1. Write Only Memory by sjbe · · Score: 5, Funny

    the greatest difficulty will be with the reading of information

    Is the long anticipated write-only memory here at last? Huzzah!

  2. Reading the information? by nobuzz · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  3. Great. Just great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  4. Sounds like my backup strategy. by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Backup is easy! The restore is the tricky part.

  5. It's probably quantum. by Scrameustache · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

    1. Re:It's probably quantum. by Smidge204 · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, but the RIAA will sue you anyway!

      =Smidge=