Blu-Ray optical disks to be made from corn...

[Ron]

:shock: :? :lol: 8)

Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19443

From the article:

BOFFINS AT Japanese tech company Pioneer have made a next-generation optical disk out of corn starch.

Apparently corn starch can be made compatible with Blu-ray

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.

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.

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.

The whole article can be read at the link above.