Ooo. Polymers that hold data.
Found this in my inbox yesterday, which I thought was actually pretty darn cool. It looks like it's going to be ROM only, as original optical media was, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be extremely useful for a whole slew of devices. Probably most exciting is that the form factor could be whatever you decided you wanted it to be, similar to the new polymer based batteries that are starting to make it into some of my favorite devices.
It also made me go back and reread this from my bookmark archive, which seems to have made some good progress since I was first looking into it. Yeah it's a ways off, but remember there was a time when a hard drive was a 9 foot prototype of large disks in an IBM research lab.
It just still kind of amazes me sometimes that 99% of our data gets stored on thin metal disks spinning at extremely fast RPM's.
Posted by drunkenbatmanDecember 01, 2003, at 06:05 PM
