Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:28:19 +0100 From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: CDs 'could be history in five years' To: Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Compact discs could be history within five years, superseded by a new generation of fingertip-sized memory tabs with no moving parts.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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