Info-MICAs
Well Japan is at it again. In the future wave of storage mediums, NTT has created the newest storage medium, the Info-MICAs. The current design model is about the size of a postage stamp and hodls 1 gig of info. How does this work? this is what i got. Apprently they encode holograms of patterns onto layers of thin-film. And it is a stack in layers. The benefit being, 1. no high-powered laser and spinning, 2. low power consumption, 3. Large data storage for cheap. 4. u can duplicate the content easily. and 5. u cannot copy it from home. This is the dream of RIAA i think, specially since they r trying everything to sue u.
So this thing can be produced for the cost of making CDs. Obivously this sint flash ROM< it isnt writeable so it wont replace SD of CF cards. So the concept is that it might replace CDs and DVDs one day, as it is working its way up to 10 Gb.
The good thing is this is close to what the Sci-Fi films always refer to as a data-cube. Data can be stored in massive layers of some sort of cyrstal (thin-film). And it can be read with a relatively low powered light that doesnt need to be "always-on" like CDs.
