ie, have you tried clicking through on the patent link? I don't have any time to waste, but would question any article published by a quasi-scientific 'zine where the reference link is to a completely different Hitachi technology (disk drives). I did, however, enjoy the almost acid-like flashback to the days of doing DASD studies to help large IT departments justify spending Millions of Dollars to purchase that much needed.5 TB disk farm upgrade....
Ahhh, the good ol' days..
Anyway, the hyperlink in the newtechscientist article is: http://tinyurl.com/2bz2o3 which brings up the aformentioned patent. And, yes, I did a quick scan of the patent to make sure that it wasn't an embedded claim.
So, if someone has the time, it may be useful to see if this patent even exists.....
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ie, have you tried clicking through on the patent link? I don't have any time to waste, but would question any article published by a quasi-scientific 'zine where the reference link is to a completely different Hitachi technology (disk drives). I did, however, enjoy the almost acid-like flashback to the days of doing DASD studies to help large IT departments justify spending Millions of Dollars to purchase that much needed .5 TB disk farm upgrade....
Ahhh, the good ol' days..
Anyway, the hyperlink in the newtechscientist article is: http://tinyurl.com/2bz2o3 which brings up the aformentioned patent. And, yes, I did a quick scan of the patent to make sure that it wasn't an embedded claim.
So, if someone has the time, it may be useful to see if this patent even exists.....