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$18K seems like a drop in the bucket for powering this kind of research. Dr. Gan needs someone to introduce him to Kickstarter.
Seems a little past it's prime. Why would you want this when you have the internet?
Seems a little past it's prime. Why would you want this when you have the internet?
What if I could hand you the totality of Netflix, iTunes, etc.? Not wait for it to download, but transfer large chunks of the Internet in seconds? and no longer have to hope that, say, Netflix won't lose vast sections of their library for contractual reasons (as it has done of late)?
Backups: permanent archiving of everything you have all on one disc.
It makes vast swaths of data yours, in your hand, under your control, in a ridiculously compact & cheap media. No more hoping that you can get X in time, or that it will be there some time hence.
I've seen profound transformations in computing when cheap fast storage increased by an order of magnitude of orders of magnitude. This will bring that about again, to similarly disruptive and amazing results.
If this is real and can be commercialized it could lead to some pretty devastating fallout for the entertainment industry. You've got to know that there are a few obsessive archivists out there with pretty comprehensive collections of films spread across rooms of RAID arrays. When they can start backing those collections up for friends onto a single disc, ie a single disc that has more films than you could possibly w…
I see where they mention writing the data, but does anyone see how/if they are reading the data? From his other pubs [1], it looks like a two-photon process is involved as part of writing in deep-subdiffraction limit for lithography. Will be fun to try and reverse that. [1] http://www.swinburne.edu.au/engineering/cmp/profile.php?memb... Edit: Paper that this PR refers to is here: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130…
Title says CD, but it's actually a DVD. Still extremely impressive.
Seems a little past it's prime. Why would you want this when you have the internet?
You cannot buy a three thousand Gbps internet connection.
OK A) I think in this case the patents are justified :) AND B) Are CDs gonna make a comeback? Can we have cool mini-CDs?
The 1000TB figure was actually for a DVD. That said, I certainly hope so :)