[annie laurie]

Not sure if this is pingworthy for the entire list, but it might interest you.

[cripplecreek]

Professor V Renugopalakrishnan

I'm afraid to ask what his first name is.

[phoenix0468]

WOW, that's cool.

[Gay State Conservative]

One would think that the folks at Harvard Medical School would be better suited to finding cures for disease.Let HP and Sony do the IT research.

[Enterprise]

What a coincidence. Bug scientists just discovered that a layer of human protein also has great potential for data storage. The bugs just can't get enough so they have embarked on a cultural exchange program to obtain more.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Hmmmm....just smashed a fly with a DVD here. Now it won't even play let alone store anything......

;)

~GCR~

[Tiny]

Has PETA released a statement yet on how unacceptable it is to exploit microbes in this manner? If not, expect one soon.

[Echo Talon]

Professor V Renugopalakrishnan

OMG.. whats his first name? Vinny? :)

[coconutt2000]

Great!

Well, now when you say your system has a bug... you won't be lying.

[strategofr]

"He says that the protein layer, made from tiny genetically altered microbe proteins, "COULD" allow DVDs and other external devices to store terabytes of information.

Professor V Renugopalakrishnan of the Harvard Medical School in Boston reported his findings at the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Brisbane this week.

"What this "WILL" do eventually is eliminate the need for hard drive memory completely," he says. "

Notice the 2 words I have made all caps & in quote. Tense is important. The article is nonsense.

But noteworthy. The level of nonsense in science is increasing.

[dfwgator]

"What this will do eventually is eliminate the need for hard drive memory completely," he says.

I heard all that same crap when they said 64K of memory was more than you ever needed. Trust me, whatever memory capabilities they come up with, they will find a way to use it all.

[InterceptPoint]

The star at the centre of the high-capacity DVD is a light-activated protein found in the membrane of a salt marsh microbe Halobacterium salinarum.

I thought everybody knew that.

I remember when I was kid building up a small disk drive based on the salt marsh microbe Halobacterium salinarum light activated protein. It was a piece of cake. I happened to live near a salt marsh where good old Halo-sal used to hang out in large quantities so that made it pretty easy to get high quality material.

Nevertheless, it will be nice when we can run down to Fry's and buy a stack of these for $20. Perfect for storing those 1080p videos of the grandkids.

[jmcenanly]

We've come a long way in a short time. I remember when it was the thing to do to get bugs out of the computer.