EU SCIENTISTS DEVELOP NANO-PUBLISHING STORAGE
August 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PUBLISHERS could benefit from a quantum leap in data storage seeing two million books copied onto electronic chips as small as a postage stamp.
The downsizing of such digital memory, and its access by laptop computers, mobile telephones, iPods, palmtops, datachips and other consumer durables has seemed inevitable.
However, said 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, today's personal computer ...
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