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Secure Data Storage... On Your Fingernails

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the information-at-the-tips-of-your-fingers dept.

opticsorg writes "Secure optical data storage could soon literally be at your fingertips thanks to work being carried out in Japan. Yoshio Hayasaki and his colleagues have discovered that data can be written into a human fingernail by irradiating it with femtosecond laser pulses. Capacities are said to be up to 5 mega bits and the stored data lasts for 6 months - the length of time it takes a fingernail to be completely replaced."

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  1. Fingernails by ozbon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ironic that this comes up at the same time as a poll about "least favourite finger" - now they can all be useful again.

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    1. Re:Fingernails by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Boss: "Johnson, do you have that report yet?"
      Johnson: "Sure do boss, it's right here!" *waves middle finger*

  2. would be a good idea except by kalpol · · Score: 5, Funny
    Talk about thumb drives.

    Imagine losing your data when you hit your thumb with a hammer.

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  3. Bill Gates by rbarreira · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now we finally understand the full meaning of Bill Gates' quote "640K ought to be enough for everyone".

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  4. Long Nails by Nytewynd · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll bet we start seeing guys with all of their nails at 7 inches long. How else are you going to fit all of your porn onto them?

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    1. Re:Long Nails by el_womble · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wouldn't that kinda defeat the whole point of owning porn?

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  5. Re:Breaking a nail by aussie_a · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whee! I usually do my data in bytes....

    I'm going to do mine in nibbles if it's stored on my fingernails.

  6. Re:One way to be sure it's secure by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's not all. Now, in addition to having to worry about computer viruses, you're going to have to worry about nail fungus eating your data.

  7. Someone please pass me the nail file... by yestertech · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, the other one...

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  8. has to be said by MORTAR_COMBAT! · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can have my data when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

    Because if you took it while I was alive, damn, that would just be torture.

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