New Breakthrough in Nanotechnology

[J_UNTITLED]

From IMDb.com


- "In a development that could revolutionize the way in which entertainment content is distributed to consumers, IBM unveiled today (Friday) breakthroughs in the field of nanotechnology that will eventually permit more than a trillion bits of data to be stored on a device no larger than the size of an iPod. The work, published in the journal Science, IBM scientists described progress in studying a "magnetic anisotropy" in atoms -- the ability of a single atom to store information. The work of the IBM researchers could eventually be incorporated into developing memory devices on a molecular scale that could store 30,000 feature films or the entire contents of YouTube on a tiny device."

Another technology and gadget to compete with Apple and the rest of the money-hungry corporations.

[J_UNTITLED]

...No one has an opinion then? Interesting.

[scott1256ca]

can you post a link? quick search didn't turn it up

[jimsch42]

I just happened to stumble across this on yahoo...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070901...euvqD0Sa4N7YV4

[scott1256ca]

Not much there for me to comment on, since they don't provide any real specifics.

They said at least a decade away for the first tech. Despite the density, I don't see how they will shrink down the scanning tunneling electron microscope to fit into an iPod

As to the second. I have read claims similar to this in the past, by that I mean molecular sized memory, and have not heard about it since. It has a LONG way to go to prove feasible for commercial use.

However, data storage will continue to fit more info into the same physical container size for quite a while to come. Whether or not this tech. supplants the existing tech., or some radically different tech. is too far out for me to speculate.

[Neo65]

So much technology in the pipeline!

But it takes years, sometimes decades before they can be moved into production.