News: Future Ipods May Hold 300,000 Years of Music, or 10,000 Years of Crappy TV Shows
From NewKerala.COM:
Soon, your iPod Nano could play 300,000 years of music without repetition
Washington: Scientists are working to create a ultra-dense storage systems for computers and electronics. If the system works, it would enable storage of density of more than 100,000 terabits per cubic centimetre i.e. a device the size of an iPod nano could hold enough MP3 music to play for 300,000 years without repeating a song or enough DVD quality video to play movies for 10,000 years without repetition.
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University and Harvard University have proposed a new and surprisingly effective means of stabilizing and controlling ferroelectricity in nanostructures: terminating their surfaces with fragments of water. Ferroelectrics are technologically important “smart” materials for many applications because they have local dipoles, which can switch up and down to encode and store information.
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Freddy — On 4-28-2006 at 2:23 pm
If this ever happens, it means you’ll be able to carry every piece of written word, audio, or video ever created in the history of the world around in your pocket.