"IBM RESEARCH ON Tuesday announced what it believes is a breakthrough in data storage using nanotechnology that allows a trillion bits of information to be packed into a square inch, the equivalent of about 25 million printed textbook pages on a postage-stamp size surface.
"The research project, code-named Millipede, uses thousands of nanosharp tips to punch indentations that represent individual bits into a thin plastic film. IBM officials described this as the nanotech equivalent of the data processing punch card. The major advantage of this new approach, according to IBM researchers, is that the technology can be operated with much less power and is re-writable." For the full story: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/06/11/020611hnmillipede.xml Mark Post
