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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. Re:Storing large amounts of data in a small place by rbarreira · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thank you, Captain Obvious :)

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  2. Re:Long Nails by aussie_a · · Score: 0, Troll

    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?

    On something else that's 7 inches when floppy?