Wow.
Posted on 12/01/2006 11:21:16 AM PST by Zakeet
BANGALORE, 18 November 2006 — Is it time to say goodbye to CDs, DVDs, Zip drives?
A Kerala student has developed a technique for portable data whereby the data can now be stored on ordinary paper. And to boot, larger amounts of data can be had on lesser space.
The immediate question that pops into the mind is how to retrieve the data. Will it be as easy as feeding a floppy disc or CD into the drive and having it on the monitor? Perhaps it will be much easier than that. The piece of paper or even plastic sheet storing the data has only to be scanned in the scanner and read over the monitor. So wait, scan drive would be part of your computer.
Named “Rainbow Technology”, the new technique is the brainchild of Sainul Abideen, who has just finished his MCA at Muslim Educational Society Engineering College in Kuttipuram in Kerala’s Malappuram district.
The extremely low-cost technology will drastically reduce the cost of storage and provide for high-speed storage as well. Files in any format such as movie files, songs, images and text can be stored using this technology.
(Excerpt) Read more at arabnews.com ...
Now they just need to invent "the writing instrument."
Well, they certainly don't use paper for bodily sanitation, why not data.
This story has already been widely discredited.
Wow.
What if it gets coffee spilled on it ?
Very interesting. Going back to the past helps going forward to the future.
My old HP printer would already do this. The paper would jam and I could print hundreds of documents on a single line of a single sheet of paper.
They were hard to read though.
LOL, that was my first thought. This guy will be stunned when he attends his first "Infidel Shopping Mall" adorned with scanners and bar codes.
I don't think so. The link to the story is live, the source is legitimate, and the Wall Street Journal reported on it today here about 3/4 of the way down the page.
The article is definitely cool idea.
but if you could store more thant '0's and '1's on a cd and read them back (triangles, squares, etc) I could easily see how you could replicate this on CD and store more
Fake, fake, fake, fake, fake, fake. Did I mention its a fake?
But it is still kind of funny.
http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2029
Fraud. Even with a high-resolution printer, that much data can't be stored on a sheet of paper that size. If he says it's because of his geometric shapes, then he's developed a compression mechanism, which if it works could be translated into software to give current media even more storage capacity, and still far more than paper.
Let's see .... he thought of this after sending a postscript document to a non-postscript printer, right?
"I don't think so. The link to the story is live, the source is legitimate, and the Wall Street Journal reported on it today"
It's the same story debunked at this link:
http://itsoup.blogspot.com/2006/11/scam-of-indian-student-developing.html
Geeze, after Reuters gets caught inventing news, and AP gets caught inventing news you are going to us the "It Was in The MSM So It Has To Be Legit" defense? Reproters are lazy -- rewriting a press release is easier than researching one.
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