Ik heb hier een artikel gevonden over papier als opslagapparaat:
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Student Develops Paper Capable of 450GB of Storage
Rainbow technology still in the works but holds promise
According to a report from the Arab News, a university technology student named Sainul Abideen has invented a method of storing massive amounts of digital data on a plain piece of paper that he claims could store many times the capacity of the best Blu-ray or HD-DVD discs. In fact, Abideen says that his Rainbow technology can enable him to store from 90 to 450GB on a piece of paper. As far as a real life demonstration of a 450GB paper goes, the technology still needs development.
Abideen, who hails from the Kerala, India, claims that that his Rainbow system is better than a binary storage because instead of using ones and zeros to represent data, Abideen uses geometric shapes such as squares and hexagons to represent data patterns. Color is also used in the system to represent other data elements. According to Abideen, all that's required to read the Rainbow prints is a scanner and specialized software.
The reporter at Arab News claims to have seen 450 pages of fully printed foolscap being stored on a 4-square inch piece of Rainbow paper. The reporter also claimed that he was shown a 45-second video clip that was stored using the Rainbow system on a plain piece of paper. Interestingly, 45-seconds of video isn't a lot, and if the Rainbow system can store up to 450GB, then we need to be watching full length high-definition videos from a piece of paper.
One of the major advantages of the Rainbow system is the fact that it should cost a lot less to produce than typical polycarbonate DVD and CD discs. Abideen claims that huge databanks can be constructed out of Rainbow-based storage mediums. Although the main attraction is cheap paper right now, other media can use the Rainbow system too.
As of right now, Abideen's system is still under research at the Muslim Educational Society Engineering College and although no major companies have expressed interest, Abideen is confident of the system's future. According to the report, Aibdeen is hard at work at developing a Rainbow scanner that would be small enough for integration into notebook computers. If developed, a Rainbow printer will likely be next up.
In other high-capacity storage news, DailyTech previously reported that Hitachi-Maxell is in the progress of producing holographic media for shipment this year. Holographic storage is one of the biggest forward-looking storage technologies and holds a great deal of promise -- as well as data.
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Tziet er goed uit maar langs den andere kant ook niet. Wat als da papier een beetje uitzet door de warmte? Als het kreukt? ... Dan moede da al uiterstvoorzichtig vervoeren ofzo.
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According to today's New York Times, scientists have built a memory chip the size of a white blood cell with wires as thin as proteins. It holds 160,000 bits and is 40 times as dense as today's memory chips — impressive.
The chips don't quite work yet, and may never be sold commercially, but if they were, the possibilities for gadgets and computers could be endless: from smarter robots to keychains that hold hundreds of video games. And Google would have no problem finding storage space for detailed images of the entire solar system. In the meantime, let's hand it to the scientists who are working hard to take the "FI" out of our name.
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Nen chip zo groot als een witte bloedcel maar het werkt nog ni echt.
En dan heb ik nog iets gelezen van een pen dat als een computer werkt. Het zou een scherm op de muur projecteren en een keyboard dat via bluetooth werkt.
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Damned Smal Linux 
