Too much space. Is there such a thing?

Lucent has been busy working away on creating a viable holographic storage, and has finally come up with the goods. Of course, it's just prototype, but what we're talking about here is roughly 300Gb per square inch and transfer rates measured in the

Lucent has been busy working away on creating a viable holographic storage, and has finally come up with the goods. Of course, it's just prototype, but what we're talking about here is roughly 300Gb per square inch and transfer rates measured in the tens of MB per second.

Lucent is so confident of the storage medium's success that they are launching a new company to develop it - InPhase Technologies. The prototype uses DVD-related technologies to achieve a high storage density, but so far the big limiting factor is cost of materials. Eventually though, the guys in white coats expect the technology will make things like movie kiosks, where users can download and walk away with a movie of their choice, a soon to be realised reality.

And the convenience of being able to carry your entire collection of ripped Limp Bizkit MP3s on a single disc simply cannot be stressed enough.
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