You think you have good memory, think again…
“Yer… look at me, my MP3 player has 30Gb of memory!”
“Pah, I’ve got a new 80Gb I pod, that’s hours of music.”
“Hours??? Mine goes for 3 years.”
And he’s not kidding you know! (Sort of). Our friends at IBM have been developing what they are calling ‘racetrack memory’ which they say will be able to store over 100 times more than what our current storage of mediums can, which means MP3 players could be storing enough songs to play constantly for 3 years.
Using tiny magnetic boundaries to store data, this technology will be able to revolutionize (again) the size of our gadgets and what they can hold, which in the case of an MP3 player would mean half a million songs. It would also use less energy, so battery’s would take less time to go flat, and it would mean that the process would create less heat, good news for the computer industry.
However they predict that it will take them another 3-4 years to produce a prototype, and roughly the same amount of time to develop it so that it will be available for commercial use; so please don’t get too exited yet. However it is another great step into the technologically unknown, and who knows what this will develop into.
Popularity: 5% [?]
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
whoah