1.21 jigawatt lase-- wait, no... Microholography!

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited July 2007 in Science & Tech
Ars delivers again with the skinny on microholography, a technique whereby optical disks boast up to ten layers of information, read by up to five different LASER wavelengths. The technology has a very prosperous outlook, and hopes to boast 1TB of storage with 200Mb/s I/O by 2010.

In other news, stocks for companies producing optical disk scratch-repair devices are expected to soar.

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  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    1.21
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    gigawatt
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Fixed. And cool technology, by the way. Are hard drives going to go the way of the dodo with these advancements in technology? Think about it, TBs of portable data. Granted, the access times need to improve drastically, but if they can match those speeds, I can't see HDs lasting. Of course, that's a biiiiiiiiiiiig "if" we're talking about.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    I really did want jigawatt, please.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Sorry :(

    /me wanders away sheepishly
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    gigawatt has two pronunciations, one that sounds like giggle, and one that sounds like jiggle.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    but its still spelled giga either way isn't it?
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    mmmhmmm
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Back to the Future reference. hi2u.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    before my time.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Thrax wrote:
    Back to the Future reference. hi2u.


    yes, it is from back to the future. However, someone wouldn't write tomahto just because that's how they say it...
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    It's "Jigawatts" in the final script, sir.
  • ThelemechThelemech Victoria Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Thrax wrote:
    Back to the Future reference. hi2u.

    Great movie!
    And great scene reference - Marty and The Doc:cool2:
  • NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    I'm actually finding "jigowatt" in the movie scripts.

    http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/back_to_the_future_original_draft.html
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    http://catjiggawatts.ytmnd.com/
  • RADARADA Apple Valley, CA Member
    edited July 2007
    Thrax wrote:
    Back to the Future reference. hi2u.



    Sorry Thrax, you're dealing with a tough crowd here. The reference short right over their heads, and they never even looked at it going by....
  • NLichtmanNLichtman Spring Valley, CA
    edited July 2007
    This sounds really interesting. I may have to look more into this...
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