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'Millipede' Prototype Shown at CeBIT
neutron_p writes "It was a subject of much controversy for last 5 - 7 years, but it's finally got protyped. At CeBIT, IBM for the first time shows the prototype of "Millipede" - nanomechanical data storage device. Using revolutionary nanotechnology, scientists at the IBM Zurich R&D Lab, Switzerland, have made it to the millionths of a millimeter range, achieving data storage densities of more than one terabit per square inch, equivalent to storing the content of 25 DVDs on an area the size of a postage stamp. The principle of operation is comparable with the old punch cards, but now with structural dimensions in the nanometer scale and the ability to erase data and rewrite the medium."
Like when you drop a three foot tall stack of them in the computer lab and have to spend several hours putting them back in order?
(true story)
...the worlds smallest keypunch.
Oh, no! You have walked into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue!
"The principle of operation is comparable with the old punch cards"
So now we feed these stamp sized cards intot he big machine, and it says "working!, working!, working!" till it spits out another stamp with the answer.
Awesome.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
but how many Libraries of Congress per VW-beetles is it?
That is some insane data density, to have more than one terabit per inch. And here those crazy people though nano-tech would bring about "grey goo" -- little did they know the only goo it'd bring about is from the toughts of Slashdotters having a multiple TB's of porn on myeir harddrives.
Windows has detected an undetectable error.
Unfortunately, I hear that any hardware that uses the "millipede" ends up being a bit "buggy"...
Obviously, on 10 centipedes, rotated weekly.
... is a nano gun and some nano mushrooms! Ah those were the days.
"So there he is, risen from the dead. Like that fella, E. T." - Father Ted Crilly
What the hell does that mean? I know a postage stamp, but I would rather know REAL standards. What is the LoC/FF for that item? We need to use real scientific standards people. In data storage we talk about bits and bytes, when you talk data density, you can only use LoC/FF. Anything else is ludicrous! It's like talking about car speeds at Furlongs per Week.
Geez. I wish journalistic integrity was a bit higher. It just irks me to-
What? What's LoC/FF?
Libraries of Congress per Football Field of course. You know, the standard.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
..was that this news is about 23 years old, and that's gotta be some kind of record. Even for Slashdot.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
But how will we make a backup of those?
Just press it into a peice of silly putty to mirror the surface.
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As in US 2000 elections ? Then I don't want to have that !!!! The brother of the CPU will always win, because he's having "special recount" on the punch cards...
What this obviously means is that I'm one step closer to a cyberpunk style computer in my skull. Who needs to learn when you have google access directly interfaced with your brain?
God, I hope I'm kidding...
I'm sorry, I'm still confused.
Is that the old VW Beetle, or the new one?
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Will it have a hanging chad problem?
You've calulated the volume of the chip
;-)
correctly (apart from using units of mm^2
instead of mm^3), but how in hell did you
come up with the volume of a VW?
1m = 1000mm
=> 7,710,952.32 mm^3 = 0.00771 m^3
=~ a 20x20x20 cm cube
I think your VW shrank in the rain/sun cycle
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