Have the people that keep shouting that this should be used for handhelds stopped and thought about this? The last thing I would want to do is put a small device emitting microwaves in my pocket. It would be like carrying a small cooking device around on your person. And what about you car keys have you ever seen what happens when you put something metal in a microwave? Now imagine that happening in your pants not to mention that if your going to start irradiating large areas with microwaves your going to end up with a bunch of hairless mutants running around checking stock quotes on there PDA's. (shudder) this may be cool but I don't think it's vary practical
Did any one watch the TV special about the NY times Time capsule they solved this problem by engraving type and images into a piece of platinum with a laser they managed to place several hundred pages of text and photos in a disk the size of a CD. Assuming that it isn't melted down in a fire it should be indestructible. They mentioned at the time that this was the same way that the government stores data the needs to be protected from a nuclear blast. as long as your only trying to store text this would be more than adequate
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Have the people that keep shouting that this should be used for handhelds stopped and thought about this? The last thing I would want to do is put a small device emitting microwaves in my pocket. It would be like carrying a small cooking device around on your person. And what about you car keys have you ever seen what happens when you put something metal in a microwave? Now imagine that happening in your pants not to mention that if your going to start irradiating large areas with microwaves your going to end up with a bunch of hairless mutants running around checking stock quotes on there PDA's. (shudder) this may be cool but I don't think it's vary practical
Did any one watch the TV special about the NY times Time capsule they solved this problem by engraving type and images into a piece of platinum with a laser they managed to place several hundred pages of text and photos in a disk the size of a CD. Assuming that it isn't melted down in a fire it should be indestructible. They mentioned at the time that this was the same way that the government stores data the needs to be protected from a nuclear blast. as long as your only trying to store text this would be more than adequate