[KriegerGeist]

"I know this is off topic, but I remember reading in New Scientist a couple of years back that new floppies had been invented which could hold at least 1 hundred megabytes and still read normal floppies. Does anyone know what happened to that idea?"

You miust have read that article quite awhile ago.
That article would be referring to the "LS-120 drive by Imation".
The drive would read and write 120MB to a type of hard floppy, but would also read/write to a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy.

I don't think they went over very big, but you can read them here:

Link to Imation LS-120 drive info

[gd124]

Imation still makes them in 120 and 240 meg size: http://www.imation.com/en_US/product.jhtml?Id=IM_FAM122

It's a pity they're not more widespread. Zip discs and cdr or cdrw are too fussy for quick storage or transportation.