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- DreamSpirit3, on 05/04/2009, -0/+34*****. I just Bought a Blu-Ray Player!
- clickmyface, on 05/04/2009, -0/+34the galaxy is on orions belt
- fucter, on 05/04/2009, -3/+36could store.
meaning someday we might figure it out. - presidentraygun, on 05/04/2009, -1/+23Looks like I'm going to have to buy the White Album again.
- spacerobot, on 05/04/2009, -0/+19So for computers of the future, to load software we will have to use crystals? Kind of like how the time machine worked in Napoleon Dynamite?
- killdashnine, on 05/04/2009, -0/+19***** the RIAA. Just saying that in advance of their draconian crystal-locking policies 50 years from now.
- trickyt, on 05/04/2009, -0/+17you must construct additional pylons
- Tetec, on 05/04/2009, -0/+16Stargate.
- Scrappy1850, on 05/04/2009, -0/+14how many crystals will it take to hold Final Fantasy 14?
- cynic573, on 05/04/2009, -0/+13I hope it's reliable... these wouldn't make very good coasters.
- JAGUART, on 05/04/2009, -0/+11Yet another Digg submission filed under "Cool ***** you'll never see in your lifetime"
- KevinRosa, on 05/04/2009, -0/+11the sticky one
- inactive, on 05/04/2009, -0/+9Damnit Now my HDDVD player is done for REAL
- Daxx22, on 05/04/2009, -0/+7Not enough.
- fartbarker, on 05/04/2009, -1/+8reminds of those crystals in superman's fortress of solitude
- inactive, on 05/04/2009, -0/+7I remember reading about holography storage, where you have multiple layers, storing TBs of data on a simple 1x1 cube made of mosty glass materials. Only problem, fagile as hell! They could never find a way to mass produce them without breaking 80% of the batch. Where this new technology works in the lab, it may not work when mass produced.
Right now we can increse processing power 1000x fold by replacing silicon circuits with those made of DIAMONDS! Yes, freaking diamond motherboards, technology available right now, but impossible to mass produce as we dont know how to produce them in flat shapes suitable for circuits. Getting closer, but still a ways off. - cheerfulcynic, on 05/04/2009, -0/+7you mean, the labs that create sapphires
- Sloi, on 05/04/2009, -1/+7Jaffa! Kree!
- anexanhume, on 05/04/2009, -0/+6I have something I need to show you. You really need to see this.
Oh, I will, I will. - inactive, on 05/04/2009, -0/+6So how much porn can it hold?
- cor315, on 05/04/2009, -0/+6see why can't they just say that instead of 250 dvds. It's not like no one knows what a terabyte is.
- Brasolis, on 05/04/2009, -1/+7Assuming 1 unit of porn = 30 minutes and one unit of aforementioned DVD = 1 hour and 30 minutes (assuming the DVD is indeed holding a movie of some type) then about 750 Pornos
- nevaseez, on 05/04/2009, -0/+5compact discs and any other media that can be scratched and degrade heavily with time, SUCKS!
- LonelyTylenoL, on 05/04/2009, -1/+6Nanotechnology will be be one of the most interesting rapidly developing sciences to observe over the next few centuries.
It is incredibly promising:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nanotechnolog ... - lothar250, on 05/04/2009, -0/+5Yeah, wonder how much such a thing will cost.
- XsuperflyX, on 05/04/2009, -0/+5Can we please stop using DVDs as a unit of measure.
- inactive, on 05/04/2009, -1/+6is that like a subway token size coin or the Canadian million dollar gold coin (look it up its quite big)
who the hell uses "coin" as a size.
we do understand centimeters or even inches for the Luddites. - bipolarruledout, on 05/05/2009, -1/+6Still more useful than an actual diamond.
- ziplizard, on 05/04/2009, -0/+4Men in Black. Orion was a cat.
Rosebud was a sled. - Skywise, on 05/04/2009, -3/+7Babylon 5 said it first... datacrystals...
- LonelyTylenoL, on 05/04/2009, -0/+4I reminded me of those cubic crystals that were used to watch videos in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy.
- Wakkyweed, on 05/04/2009, -0/+4The only problem with having all your data on a coin size crystal will be how easy it is to lose the son-of-a-bitch.
- fasda, on 05/04/2009, -2/+6most scifi *
- venom8599, on 05/04/2009, -0/+4Saphires? Mwuhahahaha! With those I could open the gates of Garesh!
- mctom987, on 05/04/2009, -1/+5Coins are discs.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disc
disk
/dɪsk/
–noun
1. any thin, flat, circular plate or object. - DWatch, on 05/04/2009, -1/+5All of it.
- nyxerebos, on 05/04/2009, -0/+4Sapphire is aluminum oxide (Al2O3), you'd want a lab grown-crystal made specifically for the application, not some overpriced rock from Central Africa (they have defects and impurities). Synthetic sapphires have been manufactured for over 100 years, I'd think anyone with the tech to make storage from them could make their own.
- jrathe89, on 05/04/2009, -0/+3heh, same thing i was thinking, now would be a good time to invest into all types of crystals as well i would assume.
- y0urcl0ne, on 05/05/2009, -0/+3Imagine trying to keep track of all your coin sized storage.
- barktwiggs, on 05/05/2009, -0/+3With these moon sapphires, I could open up the gates of Garesh!
- Maxamegalon2000, on 05/05/2009, -0/+3Of course! Layering the film of block copolymers onto the surface of a commercially available sapphire crystal! It's so obvious now!
- disrupter, on 05/04/2009, -3/+6Finally I could carry all my porn in the palm of my hand.
- jcastillo81, on 05/04/2009, -0/+3Damn... you beat me to it.
- gcnaddict, on 05/04/2009, -0/+3So, you're saying that I can eventually store films on my watch crystal?
That would be a pretty smooth way of discreetly moving information, actually. - bipolarruledout, on 05/05/2009, -0/+3I only measure my data storage in "libraries of congress".
- oda1, on 05/04/2009, -0/+3When are we gonna stop hearing about all these amazing ways to store terabytes of data, and actually see it happen?
Talk is cheap. - nyxerebos, on 05/04/2009, -0/+3Good point, I'd like a Library of Congress cufflink myself.
- RiotHeart, on 05/04/2009, -6/+9You should be saying that regardless if this didn't come for 20 years.
- Fmunkey, on 05/04/2009, -1/+4So thats a little over 1tb if its the more common single layer DVD, more than 2tb if the moviestandard dual layer discs. It's the 1tb about what holographic discs promised?
either way, its crazy stuff. - DotFreelance, on 05/04/2009, -0/+3Dugg up for your porn math.
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