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[Culex]

I found this news quite amazing. Apparently a company name Optware has developed a holographic interface for silicon discs that holds drastically more data than even Blue Ray or HD-DVD.

Holographic recording technology records data on discs in the form of laser interference fringes, enabling existing discs the same size as today's DVDs to store as much as one terabyte of data (200 times the capacity of a single layer DVD), with a transfer speed of one gigabyte per second (40 times the speed of DVD). This approach is rapidly gaining attention as a high-capacity, high-speed data storage technology for the age of broadband.

Holy shit indeed.

http://www.optware.co.jp/english/what_040823.htm

 

[Ill Saint]

Awesome, but sounds like it would be quite costly.

 

[nubbe]

Sony already uses holographic technology on the PS2 discs

 

[6.8]

Maybe that's the kind of holographic tech that nintendo will use for Revolution?

 

[OmniGamer]

Wow, so much for FMDs(fluorescent multilayer discs)

 

[The Bookerman]

wow, talk about ownage.

 

[Crispy]

Maybe in a while we'll have small cubes containing data, just like in some science fiction series. I don't think it's too far off seeing these advancements.