EU SCIENTISTS DEVELOP NANO-DATA STORAGE
August 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNIVERSITIES are set to benefit from a quantum leap in data storage that could see the pages of two million books copied onto electronic chips as small as a postage stamp.
The downsizing of digital memory and related computers, mobile telephones, iPods and other consumer durables has almost seemed like an inevitable progression.
However, pointed out Professor Chris Binns, of the University of Leicester, that ain't necessarily so: "The smaller the piece of magnetic material [used to store data], the more unstable it is." Indeed, ...
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