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256GB Geometrically Encoded Paper Storage Device
jrieth50 noted that a method of using geometric shapes combined with color to store up to 256GB of data on a sheet of paper or plastic. The article says "Files such as text, images, sounds and video clips are encoded in 'rainbow format' as colored circles, triangles, squares and so on, and printed as dense graphics on paper at a density of 2.7GB per square inch. The paper can then be read through a specially developed scanner and the contents decoded into their original digital format and viewed or played."
Now it's possible to fold up 256MB worth of data and fly it across the room.
than 6800000000 dwords?
I wiped my ass on a blank sheet, scanned it in and was greeted with the Windows Vista login screen.
Can we now say again, "Sorry, my dog ate my homework!" ?
quote:I expect to see a story like this on Digg, but I thought Slashdot was better than this.
You must be new here!
*crumble crumble crumble*
Ha Ha I just killed your 5 year archive of porn!
You can't take the sky from me.
People have been using paper to store their porn long before the web was here.
You think a /. reader's 5 year collection of porn would fit on 256GB?
You must be new here.
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." - Every fascist, ever
Hey guys, remember back in the day when we stored data on paper using HOLES?
I wouldn't be so quick to say this is a scam.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
How much do you love the story's title? "Data can now be stored on paper!"
We truly live in the golden age of technology.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.
and to save you from having to read the whole discussion, all estimates from below at the time of posting as to the maximum amount of information that can be stored on a sheet of either A4 or 8.5"x11" paper in this way:
2 GB, 244 GB, 7.6MB, 22MB,03GB, 765KB, 1.360006 million bits, 244,800,000 bytes, 8,415,000 MB, 15,000,000 bytes, 578MB, 1540.83 MB, 403MB, 9GB, 140MB, 280MB, 87,925,612 bytes, 256 MByte, 1.7 trillion bytes, 26 Megabytes, 20196 Mbit, 3 Million Gigabytes, 68 megabytes, 64K, 30 Mb, 32Mb, 8.2Gb, 69MiB, 1.4GB, 700 Gb, 31 Tb, 3.23136 TiB, 12MB, 247.955GB, 257 MB, 50 MB, 20,971,520,000 bits, 23,040,000 bits, 4000 megabytes, 5GB, 10MB, 200Kbytes, 1.4GB, 0.18 GB, 0.05 GB, 579 Gigabytes, 72.5 Gigabytes, 7,166 gigabits, 561 Mbits, 3,341,132,928 bytes, 26 MB, 2.2GB, 17 megabytes, 17401734 bytes, 128 megabytes, 139 MB, 254 megabytes, 245 GB, 128 MB.
my password really is 'stinkypants'