Secure Data Storage... On Your Fingernails

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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would be a good idea except

[kalpol]

Talk about thumb drives.

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

Re:Fingernails

[Anonymous Coward]

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