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In conjunction with NEC in Japan, Renugopalakrishnan's team has produced a prototype device and estimate a USB disk will be commercialised in 12 months and a DVD in 18 to 24 months.

Now that is not theorizing.

"It ain't bragging if you can do it." - Y. Berra

Can they do it? Time will show - but a prediction of commercialization in a year's time is not exactly "global warming is happening because it's hotter today than it was yesterday, and in 20 years the sea level will rise 30 feet!"

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a prediction of commercialization in a year's time is not exactly "global warming is happening because it's hotter today than it was yesterday, and in 20 years the sea level will rise 30 feet!"

Still, for a technology with which they propose to replace the hard disk, access speed claims are conspicuous by their absence.

And OTOH they do not actually claim archival storage capability, only "several years."

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I was tired and obviously not thinking clearly when I posted last night! :)