NEWS: Commercial Holographic Storage Being Shown

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Commercial holo-storage on exhibit:


http://www.inphase-tech.com/



September 12-18, 2006
INPHASE TECHNOLOGIES DEMONSTRATES FIRST COMMERCIAL HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE PRODUCT AT IBC 2006
Hall 11, Stand 231
RAI Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands


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[Bozo]

Whoo-Weee. That is some awesome storage system.
I bet the price is awesome too.

Bozo :joker:

 

[.Nut]

I bet the price is awesome too...

Undoubtedly! Early technology adopters *always* pay out the wazoo. But, I'm predicting that once this technology starts shipping in reasonable volumes, it will turn out to be W-A-Y more interesting to the public than Bloo-Ray and HD-DVD.

What could turn out to be the first real killer product from holo-storage technology is holo-storage based on a credit-card-like medium. The card is pushed into a reader/writer much like a credit card reader. This type of reader/writer will have a head that traverses the surface in an X-Y fashion as the medium stays dead still. Storage capacity for one of these holo-cards (dependent on the number of layers) could start off around 20 GB to 25 GB and go to well over 150 GB.