3D Optical Data Storage by 2010? Whoa.... *drools*

Published on May 24, 2009 By Gh0st_Note- In Personal Computing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_optical_data_storage

In a nutshell, Terabyte-level storage on an optical disk the size of a DVD or Blu-Ray. Holy $hI%! Even if this doesn't come out in 2010, this is some impressive technology that could really shake up how we store our data. More than likely this will be for large corporations and tech-hobbyists, but still. Amazing.

Comments (Page 2)

Jafo

on May 25, 2009

Jafo types this via IE6 in Win 98 se ...... ain't technology grand...

Uvah

on May 25, 2009

I saw that demo'd on the discovery channel about four five years ago. Pretty amazing.

UstraMage

on May 25, 2009

thats how people reacted to gigabytes in the kilobyte era too remember?

I do, I remember when Diablo 2 came out with a 1.5 Gig load option and thought that was outragues. Now thats nothing... how much longer till 25-50 Gigs in the norm...that 1 terabyte just might become more needed sooner then we think!

Kitkun

on May 25, 2009

From memory it's a laser scan of a resin-suspended polymer that 'hardens' on contact/focus of the laser

Hrm. Must be different from the one I saw. I know what I saw used layers of glue.

Gh0st_Note-

on May 25, 2009

Mooster

reply 12

Quoting Protocept00, reply 11
Quoting StAcK3D_ActR, reply 10
Then again, that would depend on what the nanotechnology product is being used for.
a microwave, which has voice recognition and instantly makes a big mac for you..

mini robots that repair damaged cells in your body...

there are endless possibilities
Ooh ooh, my favorite: 3D printers! Imagine ordering a "blueprint" off of ebay and instead of having to wait til UPS arrives, the printer "prints" out whatever item you requested. Google it. They are trying to make some headway with it. The ones I've seen so far don't use nanotechnology, but if they did gawd they'd be amazing.
actually they already have this type of printer where it can literally print 3d objects, I believe they did it once on CSI:NY for the first or second season...and scientist have actually created (and are still developing) heart valves that were printed using a special kind of printer, I remember seeing that on Discovery Channel some time ago.

Yeah, but with nanotechnology? Hell no. The ones we have today are very limited in what they can create. It can only be simple things that can be created with todays 3d printers, I ment all out being able to create anything, which would have to use nanotechnology to be entirely feasible I'm sure.

Gh0st_Note-

on May 25, 2009

Jafo

reply 15

I don't remember the exact details,
From memory it's a laser scan of a resin-suspended polymer that 'hardens' on contact/focus of the laser ....so the object solidifies within a solution ...

Thing is, the printer you guys are talking about is very limited in what it can design. I ment being able to "print" any kind of mechanical device, not just plastic and clay type stuff.

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