I am a gadget guy at heart, and love to see all the advances made in science and technology. So I got pretty pumped when I heard today that GE had figured out the technology to store information equivalent to 100 DVD’s on a single CD-sized disk. Here is what Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times is reporting:
General Electric says it has achieved a breakthrough in digital storage technology that will allow standard-size discs to hold the equivalent of 100 DVDs. The storage advance, which G.E. is announcing on Monday, is just a laboratory success at this stage. The new technology must be made to work in products that can be mass-produced at affordable prices.
But optical storage experts and industry analysts who were told of the development said it held the promise of being a big step forward in digital storage with a wide range of potential uses in commercial, scientific and consumer markets. “This could be the next generation of low-cost storage,” said Richard Doherty, an analyst at Envisioneering, a technology research firm.
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