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InPhase Announces 300GB Holographic Discs
turboflux writes "After rolling out prototype holographic drives last year, ExtremeTech reports that InPhase has announced they intend to ship drives to commercial customers in 2006. InPhase originally intended on shipping the 200GB version of their media this year. Another article on Engadget mentions that 1TB discs will be available in 2009."
Of course you did you're a nerd who expects technologists to cater to your every whim and fancy while you suckle away on the scientists computerized teats.
not to mention 1.0gb in 2009?? Who puts up with that kinda slow progress nowadays! In 2009 I'm expecting google's archive on a 2 disc set of (media) - none of this 1tb hosh-posh.
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Something that I can fit my music collection on!
Where do i buy an mp3 player that can read these?
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
Oh I don't know. How about Google with its caches, those guys who like burying time capsules, and businesses and governments for backing up their data? I'm sure there are more, I just don't feel like marketing right now.
You, guys, are not going to trust your vital data to someone called Murphy, are you? :)
...that there are persistant rumors in the Mac/Apple community that there the existing line of iPods is about to be enhanced with a new addition, the: iPod 'Brick'. The new iPod will weigh in at a hefty 1,6 Kg but marketing research has indicated that it will nevertheless be popular as an antithesis to the diminutive iPod 'Mini'.
PS. Dont tell anybody else we might get sued.
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
The linked article states that "the recording material is 1.5 mm thick and is sandwiched between two 130 mm diameter transmissive plastic substrates". So from my take on this, it seems that they have a plate-like object (possibly see-thru... I can imagine GREAT case-modding...) that is VERY THIN.
Dude.... you pretty much just described a CD. (1.2mm thick, 120mm diameter.)
Will holographic images of porn be visible on the back side of the disc ?
If you e.g. have a hologram showing a gallon-sized bottle and you break it into two equally sized pieces, then you have two pictures, each showing a half-gallon-sized bottle.
So Dad would have twice as many files, but he now needs a magnifying lens for masturbating over his pr0n collection :)
Sandwiched between two substrates each 130 mm "thin"?
Or, as other pointed out, there are few universes where diameter is measured in height. This universe is usually not one of those.
Did you think it was a ball?
It's The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."
If you e.g. have a hologram showing a gallon-sized bottle and you break it into two equally sized pieces, then you have two pictures, each showing a half-gallon-sized bottle.
yeah, and if you broke those in half again, it would change into a quart bottle, and if you did it again, you would end up with 8 pictures of a pint glass.
it gets really wacky if you keep going, you end up with a whole collection of little pictures of tablespoons.
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Is this the MPAA? Is this the RIAA? Is this the DMCA? I thought it was the USA!
...Microsoft announced today that it's next major release of Windows will require 290G of disk space to be installed.
Yeah, because who could possibly have a need for a 300GB disc? Anything less than 1TB would obviously fail miserably. Just look at how few people use DVDs because of their low storage capacity!