[IP] CDs 'could be history in five years'

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:28:19 +0100
From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@iconia.com>
Subject: CDs 'could be history in five years'
To: Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber <dave@farber.net>

CDs 'could be history in five years'
Ananova

Compact discs could be history within five years, superseded by a new
generation of fingertip-sized memory tabs with no moving parts.

Scientists say each paper-thin device could store more than a gigabyte of
information - equivalent to 1,000 high quality images - in one cubic
centimetre of space.

Experts have developed the technology by melding together organic and
inorganic materials in a unique way.

They say it could be used to produce a single-use memory card that
permanently stores data and is faster and easier to operate than a CD.

The card would not involve any moving parts, such as the laser and motor
drive required by compact discs. Its secret is the discovery of a previously
unknown property of a commonly-used conductive plastic coating.

US scientists at Princeton University, New Jersey, and computer giants
Hewlett-Packard combined the polymer with very thin-film, silicon-based
electronics.

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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_837803.html?menu=news.latestheadlines

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