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31 July 2004

MEMORY CUBE BREAKS RECORD

The promise of pocket-sized storage devices that can hold not only your music collection but your entire DVD library too has been around for over a decade, thanks to a device called an optical cube that can cram in 1000 gigabytes (Âé¶¹´«Ã½, 13 August 1994, p 22). The problem is that no one has yet managed to read or write the data fast enough to make them viable as a commercial device.

Now a team lead by Masaharu Nakano at Shizuoka University, Japan, has created a nanoscale structure that can store 2000 gigabytes of…

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