[extropy-chat] memory tabs

[Dirk Bruere]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Damien Broderick" <thespike at earthlink.net>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 11:15 PM
Subject: [extropy-chat] memory tabs


> This might be old news, but it's kinda cool:
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/06/1073268003915.html
>
> CDs could be obsolete in five years
> London
> January 6, 2004
>
>
> Compact discs could be history in five years, superceded by a new
generation
> of fingertip-sized memory tabs with no moving parts.
> Each device could store more than a gigabyte of information - equivalent
to
> 1000 high quality images - in one cubic centimetre of space.
> Scientists have developed the technology by melding together organic and
> inorganic materials in a unique way. They say it could be used to produce
a
> single-use memory card that permanently stores data and is faster and
easier
> to operate than a CD.

30yrs ago they were called 'fusible link PROMs'
Now its the same idea, but in plastic (but still requiring a silicon
interface).
That progress.

Dirk

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