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."

Comments

Re:RTFA

[Lord Bitman]

Assuming he encoded it using a bunch of dots, which he never claimed to do. This guy is full of shit for entirely different reasons. Here is the conversation so far, let's see if you can detect where you became a jackass:
[Idiot] I have come up with a novel technique of encoding data which nobody has thought of before, which will get a much higher capacity than the normal and obvious way.
[Jackass] If you used the normal and obvious way of encoding data there's no way you could store that much, so you must be lying.

Oh look, it was the first thing out of your mouth.

He is an idiot because: He didnt even hint at anything he could be doing differently and yet expects people to buy his story just because he said "It's different, so it works. Seriously, I'm Indian so you know I'm smart, I don't need to explain myself at all to be credible."
You are an idiot because: You ignored the one and only thing he /did/ say, which was that he was doing something differently.

Re:Robustness & Feasibility

[stonedcat]

I've been through alot of hard drives in my time... i almost always lose most of it :P

I no longer use fat32 or ntfs for anything so I'll actually end up having to delete things from time to time since nature won't be taking it's course. :)