15.5.06

How Much Space Do You Need?

This is awesome. Scientists from Drexel and Penn managed to "stabilize the simple physical property of ferroelectricity at the nano scale." What does this mean exactly? I have no idea. What I do understand is that this somehow made it possible to store up to 12,800,000 GB per cubic centimeter. Damn.

While they still have a long way to go before they can work out the logistics of how to efficiently transer information to and from this storage space, it's still a real cool development. Could in the future lead to an overabundance of computer storage space for everyone.

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