Yes, but the real question is how will this revolutionise the entire pr0n industry...
imagine a pair of these -comes in two styles "blue" and "nippleized"!!!
>Your memory of the film will be erased when you leave the cinema, to prevent you violating our intellectual property rights by telling people what you saw. >Funny, aboot 6 months ago there was an Asimov's (or Analog.. god i love my subscription) sort of about this.... this garage inventor came up with a "Helmet of Lethe" technology to allow him to experience his favourite movies (casablanca, Aliens, ect) for the first time... all over again. anyone remember what the name of the short story was?
>Unplanned murders are generally messy and planned murders are done by people not entirely in their right mind. That is why this guy is going to be caught.
"No Dr. Lechter,I don't think i'm smarter than you. You have certain dissadvantages which helped me catch you
And what was *that*
Dr. Lechter, your insane"
Wow, personally had i the karma to burn i would mod you to -1 Flamebait/Troll you.... cause *Newsflash* We _already_ did that, and tried to do that in Cuba as well at the behest of the Hershey Corp (as well as others). Please try to add a bit of history to your obviously small repetior(sic).
By Matthew Fordahl, AP San Jose, Calif. 6:29 PM EST Mon., Sept. 09, 2002 Using molecules as building blocks, Hewlett-Packard researchers have created memory circuits 10 times more dense than today's silicon chips under a process that could be faster and cheaper than current technology.
The advance announced Monday could lead to more memory within a smaller space than what is now possible.
"We believe molecular electronics will push advances in future computer technology far beyond the limits of silicon," said R. Stanley Williams, director of Quantum Science Research at HP Labs.
The high-tech industry's growth has been driven by packing more transistors -- or switches -- into smaller slivers of silicon. Within the next decade, however, current technology is expected to reach physical limits.
Researchers are looking for approaches that could continue the pace of innovation, yet without abandoning completely the industry's silicon foundation.
Williams, who presented his findings at a symposium for the 175th anniversary of the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, said the high-density memory his team created fits inside a square micron. That's so small that 1,000 of the circuits could fit on the end of a strand of human hair.
The memory is rewritable -- held on an organic synthetic molecule -- and can preserve information even after voltage is cut. It behaves much like today's flash memory, commonly used in digital cameras, music players and cell phones to store information even after a device has been turned off.
The difference is that the new memory could be much cheaper to make.
Conventional semiconductor products are created by etching transistors into silicon by shining light onto light-sensitive chemicals. Williams' approach is more akin to contact printing used in creating vinyl records -- but at a very small scale.
The masters were created in about a day. They were then pressed into a polymer layer on a silicon wafer, and then into a single layer of electronically switchable molecules on top of the silicon. Such molecules switch on and off just like a standard transistor.
"It took just a few minutes to make an imprint," Williams said.
Still, the technology is at least five years from being commercially available, Williams said.
"Things are moving along faster than we anticipated," he said. "Even given that, we're just now demonstrating feasibility, and it's a long way from feasibility to product."
The demonstration memory holds about 64 bits of data, thousands of times smaller than the 128 megabytes in the much larger chips found in today's personal computers.
And the success rate for the manufacturing process was only about 20 percent. The biggest challenge was sticking -- something anyone who has fried an egg can understand.
"When we peeled the mold off, we had a material, or parts of the circuit, just literally pull away," he said. "That's a problem we have to address and improve in our processing."
Williams' group also built a simple logic circuit that can address specific areas of nanoscale memory.
"It's a necessary step in order to have a real memory made out of this technology," he said.
The work is "a very important step forward in a years-long effort," said James C. Ellenbogen, principal scientist in the Nanosystems Group at the MITRE Corp., a not-for-profit research company.
"This is certainly a really impressive step forward for them and the whole research program as well as for the entire electronics industry worldwide."
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Oh crap.... DMCA/DCMA (same diff) boy am I in trouble!
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Whoa! I thought for a moment that this said Left-ist Redhat, you know like China's (planned) Distro. screw it it's lunch time!
>though my sensitivity to stimuli is much higher than average (I can read a photocopy with my fingertips, sometimes even writing in ink).
;-)
woah! Mr. DareDevil sir can i please have your autograph?
Yes, but the real question is how will this revolutionise the entire pr0n industry... imagine a pair of these -comes in two styles "blue" and "nippleized"!!!
>Your memory of the film will be erased when you leave the cinema, to prevent you violating our intellectual property rights by telling people what you saw. ... all over again. anyone remember what the name of the short story was?
>Funny, aboot 6 months ago there was an Asimov's (or Analog.. god i love my subscription) sort of about this.... this garage inventor came up with a "Helmet of Lethe" technology to allow him to experience his favourite movies (casablanca, Aliens, ect) for the first time
>Unplanned murders are generally messy and planned murders are done by people not entirely in their right mind. That is why this guy is going to be caught. "No Dr. Lechter,I don't think i'm smarter than you. You have certain dissadvantages which helped me catch you And what was *that* Dr. Lechter, your insane"
Wow, personally had i the karma to burn i would mod you to -1 Flamebait/Troll you.... cause *Newsflash* We _already_ did that, and tried to do that in Cuba as well at the behest of the Hershey Corp (as well as others). Please try to add a bit of history to your obviously small repetior(sic).
HP Labs Creates Densest Memory Chips To Date
By Matthew Fordahl, AP
San Jose, Calif.
6:29 PM EST Mon., Sept. 09, 2002
Using molecules as building blocks, Hewlett-Packard researchers have created memory circuits 10 times more dense than today's silicon
chips under a process that could be faster and cheaper than current technology.
The advance announced Monday could lead to more memory within a smaller space than what is now possible.
"We believe molecular electronics will push advances in future computer technology far beyond the limits of silicon," said R. Stanley
Williams, director of Quantum Science Research at HP Labs.
The high-tech industry's growth has been driven by packing more transistors -- or switches -- into smaller slivers of silicon. Within
the next decade, however, current technology is expected to reach physical limits.
Researchers are looking for approaches that could continue the pace of innovation, yet without abandoning completely the industry's
silicon foundation.
Williams, who presented his findings at a symposium for the 175th anniversary of the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, said
the high-density memory his team created fits inside a square micron. That's so small that 1,000 of the circuits could fit on the end of
a strand of human hair.
The memory is rewritable -- held on an organic synthetic molecule -- and can preserve information even after voltage is cut. It behaves
much like today's flash memory, commonly used in digital cameras, music players and cell phones to store information even after a
device has been turned off.
The difference is that the new memory could be much cheaper to make.
Conventional semiconductor products are created by etching transistors into silicon by shining light onto light-sensitive chemicals.
Williams' approach is more akin to contact printing used in creating vinyl records -- but at a very small scale.
The masters were created in about a day. They were then pressed into a polymer layer on a silicon wafer, and then into a single layer
of electronically switchable molecules on top of the silicon. Such molecules switch on and off just like a standard transistor.
"It took just a few minutes to make an imprint," Williams said.
Still, the technology is at least five years from being commercially available, Williams said.
"Things are moving along faster than we anticipated," he said. "Even given that, we're just now demonstrating feasibility, and it's a
long way from feasibility to product."
The demonstration memory holds about 64 bits of data, thousands of times smaller than the 128 megabytes in the much larger chips
found in today's personal computers.
And the success rate for the manufacturing process was only about 20 percent. The biggest challenge was sticking -- something anyone
who has fried an egg can understand.
"When we peeled the mold off, we had a material, or parts of the circuit, just literally pull away," he said. "That's a problem we have
to address and improve in our processing."
Williams' group also built a simple logic circuit that can address specific areas of nanoscale memory.
"It's a necessary step in order to have a real memory made out of this technology," he said.
The work is "a very important step forward in a years-long effort," said James C. Ellenbogen, principal scientist in the Nanosystems
Group at the MITRE Corp., a not-for-profit research company.
"This is certainly a really impressive step forward for them and the whole research program as well as for the entire electronics
industry worldwide."
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Oh crap.... DMCA/DCMA (same diff) boy am I in trouble!