[CUBE] The thing to replace HDs

[Robert W. Bumala]

IBM, Stanford University, and others have been working on storing and 
retrieving data holographically.  The links below explain it better than 
I can, but what they do is use a laser, and a detector to imprint and 
retrieve data from a photosensitive medium.  The system has no moving 
parts.  One of the media that they have been experimenting with is a 
cube of crystal.  So.. Someday your round, flat noisy hard drive in your 
computer could be replaced by a small noiseless cube!  They're going in 
the right direction!

http://www.inphase-technologies.com/technology/

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/st/projects/holography/

Bob.

Magnus Petersson wrote:
> Cube Elves,
> 
> The "which hard drive" thread got me thinking, "isn't there some other
> smarter technology around to replace these complex, lots-of-moving-parts,
> error-prone things?"
> 
> If anyone's updated on the subject, I'd be happy for an URL or just a
> comment. 
> 
> Magnus
> Stockholm
> 
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Robert W. Bumala
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