Nanotechnology paves way for super iPods
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<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->A breakthrough by scientists from the University of Glasgow could see the storage capacity of an iPod increase 150,000 times.
Nanotechnology researchers have developed a molecule-sized switch which means that data storage can be dramatically increased without the need to increase the size of devices.
Professor Lee Cronin and Dr Malcolm Kadodwala’s work would see 500,000 gigabytes squeezed onto one square inch. The current limit for the space is around 3.3 gigabytes.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
To hell with portable devices, give me computer harddrives! (who even bothers filling up 500,000 gig on a small device with puny screen?). Unless we are talking about portable <i>computers</i>.
Still pretty amazing, the jump in size is unbelievable.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->A breakthrough by scientists from the University of Glasgow could see the storage capacity of an iPod increase 150,000 times.
Nanotechnology researchers have developed a molecule-sized switch which means that data storage can be dramatically increased without the need to increase the size of devices.
Professor Lee Cronin and Dr Malcolm Kadodwala’s work would see 500,000 gigabytes squeezed onto one square inch. The current limit for the space is around 3.3 gigabytes.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
To hell with portable devices, give me computer harddrives! (who even bothers filling up 500,000 gig on a small device with puny screen?). Unless we are talking about portable <i>computers</i>.
Still pretty amazing, the jump in size is unbelievable.
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Even if it <i>is</i> Ipod focused researched, at least someone's doing it.
Maybe they have a new kind of material! Like nanowires <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
On a serious note, could it be they are using that new syntetic diamonds as heat-spreader? They conduct heat extremly well... Heat problems are not mentioned in the article, but I think it is a valid question indeed!
Google says:
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Even with 500 TB, you solve your storage solution but not how best to access it. Surely your access time would be stupidly slow under current memory management systems.
On a side note, im not bashing because im at Glasgows other university :-p
Infact, the more I think about it the more I realize that letting you store that much music is pointless. The device wouldn't even last long enough for you to listen to all of it. Not even 0.0001% of it.
Infact, the more I think about it the more I realize that letting you store that much music is pointless. The device wouldn't even last long enough for you to listen to all of it. Not even 0.0001% of it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Not to mention the fact that I sincerely doubt more than 10-100 people in the world legally own enough music to fill the 160gb iPods you can get at the moment. 500,000gb would pretty much be a notice saying "Please download every MP3 you can find to justify having this much storage space".
Also, have you heard the Darude - Sandstorm and Robert Miles - Children mix? Called Children of the Sandstorm. And is actually quite good.
A what? Please elaborate?
Oh my god, I never thought I'd actually see someone mention that word, much less mention one in a nanotechnology discussion. Lost Italian children are everywhere!