HOLOGRAMS will be storing movies, pictures, sound and computer data much
sooner than anyone thought, according to Imation, a company based in Oakdale,
Minnesota, which specialises in optical storage systems. Imation says it can
combine several cheap off-the-shelf technologies to make a disc recording system
that will store six times as much data as a DVD.
The firm is in a race with many other companies, including Bayer of Germany,
which is developing holographic discs that use liquid crystal displays to
construct data “pages” that are then stored in the layers of a hologram
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