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Source:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19443
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BOFFINS AT Japanese tech company Pioneer have made a next-generation optical disk out of corn starch.
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Apparently corn starch can be made compatible with Blu-ray
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According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper "most of the 1.2mm-thick disk is produced from a resin made from corn starch, with a single ear of corn able to make about 10 disks". We have never seen an ear of corn creating a disk as normally machines do it, so we will have to take their word for it.
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Pioneer is sure that corn starch disks will be jolly good for the environment as it is totally biodegradable when buried underground and is loved by bacteria everywhere, particularly with a liberal coating of butter.
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Since resin made from corn starch costs less than ordinary types, Pioneer calculates that mass-producing the eco-friendly disk will bring its price down to about the same level or less than those of conventional optical disks.
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The whole article can be read at the link above.