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Old 07-06-2005, 01:18 PM   #1
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Fingernails: Your Newest Storage Media?
There hasn't been a lot to get excited about with regard to storage media recently. Nothing really stood out much after Hitachi's perpendicular storage with the cute cartoon video. But now there's a totally unexpected new angle. Who would have thought that fingernails can do data storage in the megabytesbits?!

As soon as they recover from the Slashdot effect, you may be able to find more info at the link below.
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Secure optical data storage could soon literally be at your fingertips thanks to work being carried out in Japan. Yoshio Hayasaki and his colleagues have discovered that data can be written into a human fingernail by irradiating it with femtosecond laser pulses. Capacities are said to be up to 5 mega bits and the stored data lasts for 6 months - the length of time it takes a fingernail to be completely replaced."
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