Superdiamonds!
I’m one of the few people I know without a DVD/Blueray player.
I don’t want to be caught in the old VHS/Beta thing. As soon as I buy one the other will become the standard. I’ll wait until the battle is overt.
Thanks for the post. I enjoy reading scientific related articles.
What I see here is not so much the idea that more data could be packed on a standard DVD sized disk, although of course that could be done, but the promise of mini disks that could hold entire movies. It would seem that a one inch or even possibly a considerably smaller disk, could hold an entire movie.
It also seems that if you could get it small enough, perhaps a spinning disk would not be required. Perhaps a tiny wafer could be inserted in the side of a television or viewer, and a laser bounced off a mirror might be able to do the reading off a stationary medium.
This is fertile ground for thought.
Thanks.
I use DVD’s to store data. 4.7 gigs sometimes isn’t enough. Vacation photos can sometimes exceed 8 gigs. A weekend of photos can hit 4 gigs easy. I’m uneasy storing my photos on an external hard drive. I’ve already lost several thousand when externals decide to kick the bucket.
I want to travel forward and backward in time at my choosing. So, when does this hit the market because I'm tired of the Zero Admin.
France Defies its Heritage to Condemn Alcohol
Old seasonal flu antibodies target swine flu virus
Genetic analysis of swine flu virus released
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"Nanorod" used to be a insult. Hmmm.
I remember there was a teenaged inventor who got a patent for an 8-track tape that could rewind (those who remember the 8 track know they would only play or fast forward, not rewind) just about the time the format began to vanish. :’)
Thanks neverdem.
Compact Discs Enter the Fifth Dimension
ScienceNOW Daily News | 21 May 2009 | Robert F. Service
Posted on 05/23/2009 2:01:34 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257041/posts